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

Tittensor, D. P. (2015). Ecology: Ecosystem vulnerability to ocean warming. Nature, 528(7580), 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ottino, J. M., & Wiggins, S. (2004). Applied physics. Designing optimal micromixers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305(5683), 485–486.

A journal article with 3 authors

Suda, M., Kato, R., & Yamamoto, H. M. (2015). Superconductivity. Light-induced superconductivity using a photoactive electric double layer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 347(6223), 743–746.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Blosser, T. R., Yang, J. G., Stone, M. D., Narlikar, G. J., & Zhuang, X. (2009). Dynamics of nucleosome remodelling by individual ACF complexes. Nature, 462(7276), 1022–1027.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grimble, M. J. (2006). Robust Industrial Control Systems. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Destrade, M., & Saccomandi, G. (Eds.). (2007). Waves in Nonlinear Pre-Stressed Materials (Vol. 495). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Popescu, E., & Cioiu, D. (2011). eMUSE - Integrating Web 2.0 Tools in a Social Learning Environment. In H. Leung, E. Popescu, Y. Cao, R. W. H. Lau, & W. Nejdl (Eds.), Advances in Web-Based Learning - ICWL 2011: 10th International Conference, Hong Kong, China, December 8-10, 2011. Proceedings (pp. 41–50). 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

Andrew, E. (2015, March 11). Reintroduce Lynx? Fine, But We Must Control The Apex Predator. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/reintroduce-lynx-fine-we-must-control-apex-predator-0/

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. (2016). Hazardous Materials Rail Shipments: Emergency Responders Receive Support, but DOT Could Improve Oversight of Information Sharing (GAO-17-91). 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

Constantine, S. (2013). Supportive services for transitional and emancipated youth: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Crow, K. (2002, February 24). Go West, They Said. And So Should the 7 Train. New York Times, 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tittensor, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ottino & Wiggins, 2004; Tittensor, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ottino & Wiggins, 2004)
Three authors: (Suda et al., 2015)
6 or more authors: (Blosser et al., 2009)

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