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

Baker, M. (2010). Structural biology: The gatekeepers revealed. Nature, 465(7299), 823–826.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wassarman, K. M., & Saecker, R. M. (2006). Synthesis-mediated release of a small RNA inhibitor of RNA polymerase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5805), 1601–1603.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brunet, T., Leng, J., & Mondain-Monval, O. (2013). Materials science. Soft acoustic metamaterials. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6156), 323–324.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ohno, M., Sakumi, K., Fukumura, R., Furuichi, M., Iwasaki, Y., Hokama, M., Ikemura, T., Tsuzuki, T., Gondo, Y., & Nakabeppu, Y. (2014). 8-oxoguanine causes spontaneous de novo germline mutations in mice. Scientific Reports, 4, 4689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reed, S. M., & Hrci. (2017). The HRCI Official Body of Knowledge. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tarr, P. L., & Wolf, A. L. (Eds.). (2011). Engineering of Software: The Continuing Contributions of Leon J. Osterweil. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brown, E. (2010). The Life and Tools of a Games Designer. In R. Bernhaupt (Ed.), Evaluating User Experience in Games: Concepts and Methods (pp. 73–87). 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

Fang, J. (2015, January 6). High-Fructose Corn Syrup is More Toxic to Mice than Table Sugar. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2009). Information Technology: Census Bureau Testing of 2010 Decennial Systems Can Be Strengthened (GAO-09-262). 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

Sugawara, Y. (2013). When the Spaniels conquered Central America: Academic English and first year composition instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona.

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

Kelly, C. (2008, August 3). An Island, Untamed and Divided. New York Times, WE1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baker, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Baker, 2010; Wassarman & Saecker, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wassarman & Saecker, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Ohno et al., 2014)

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