How to format your references using the Health Psychology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Health Psychology. 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

Littman, M. L. (2015). Reinforcement learning improves behaviour from evaluative feedback. Nature, 521(7553), 445–451.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zindl, C. L., & Chaplin, D. D. (2010). Immunology. Tumor immune evasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5979), 697–698.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arnaud-Haond, S., Arrieta, J. M., & Duarte, C. M. (2011). Global genetic resources. Marine biodiversity and gene patents. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6024), 1521–1522.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Boettger, T., Hübner, C. A., Maier, H., Rust, M. B., Beck, F. X., & Jentsch, T. J. (2002). Deafness and renal tubular acidosis in mice lacking the K-Cl co-transporter Kcc4. Nature, 416(6883), 874–878.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Early, W. F., II. (2010). Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Park, B., & Lu, R. (Eds.). (2015). Hyperspectral Imaging Technology in Food and Agriculture (1st ed. 2015). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alviano, M., Leone, N., Manna, M., Terracina, G., & Veltri, P. (2012). Magic-Sets for Datalog with Existential Quantifiers. In P. Barceló & R. Pichler (Eds.), Datalog in Academia and Industry: Second International Workshop, Datalog 2.0, Vienna, Austria, September 11-13, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 31–43). Springer.

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 Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, October 30). Scientists Watch As Wasps Diverge To Become Separate Species. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-watch-wasps-diverge-become-separate-species/

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

Government Accountability Office. (1977). Need for Additional Internal Audit Coverage in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (FGMSD-78-12). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Seevaratnam, N. (2019). Forecasting Optimality in Resource Utilization for Cloud Computing Systems to Maximize Quality of Service [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Vecsey, G. (2011, September 29). On Final Day, Tears and Jeers. New York Times, B17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Littman, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Littman, 2015; Zindl & Chaplin, 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Zindl & Chaplin, 2010)
Three authors: (Arnaud-Haond et al., 2011)
6 or more authors: (Boettger et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Psychology
Abbreviation	Health Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0278-6133
ISSN (online)	1930-7810
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology