How to format your references using the Health policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health policy. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Field CB. Global change. Sharing the garden. Science 2001;294:2490–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tegmark M, Bostrom N. Astrophysics: is a doomsday catastrophe likely? Nature 2005;438:754.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shim JH, Haule K, Kotliar G. Modeling the localized-to-itinerant electronic transition in the heavy fermion system CeIrIn5. Science 2007;318:1615–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Johnson N, Zhao G, Hunsader E, Qi H, Johnson N, Meng J, et al. Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time. Sci Rep 2013;3:2627.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Chartered Institute of Building. Code of Practice for Project Management for Construction and Development. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Ashbee R, Bignell EM, editors. Pathogenic Yeasts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Baran ET, Reis RL. Biomimetic Approach to Drug Delivery and Optimization of Nanocarrier Systems. In: Mozafari MR, editor. Nanocarrier Technologies: Frontiers of Nanotherapy, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006, p. 75–86.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Health policy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Switzerland Could be Receiving Post by Drone. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/switzerland-could-be-receiving-post-drone/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Award of Grant by Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Migues KP. A Qualitative Exploration of Retention of Experienced Teachers: Why Do They Stay? Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Garner D, Senior J, Jennings D, Gustines GG. Who Needs Wrapping? They’re Already Covered. New York Times 2016:C26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Health policy
Abbreviation	Health Policy
ISSN (print)	0168-8510
Scope	Health Policy