How to format your references using the Health Psychology Review citation style

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

Wigley, T. M. L. (2006). A combined mitigation/geoengineering approach to climate stabilization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5798), 452–454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suter, D. M., & Schibler, U. (2009). Physiology. Feeding the clock. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 378–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baier, D. B., Gatesy, S. M., & Jenkins, F. A. (2007). A critical ligamentous mechanism in the evolution of avian flight. Nature, 445(7125), 307–310.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Dejea, C. M., Fathi, P., Craig, J. M., Boleij, A., Taddese, R., Geis, A. L., Wu, X., DeStefano Shields, C. E., Hechenbleikner, E. M., Huso, D. L., Anders, R. A., Giardiello, F. M., Wick, E. C., Wang, H., Wu, S., Pardoll, D. M., Housseau, F., & Sears, C. L. (2018). Patients with familial adenomatous polyposis harbor colonic biofilms containing tumorigenic bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6375), 592–597.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel® 2010 Tips & Tricks. Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Wilson, E. J., & Black, W. C. (Eds.). (2015). Proceedings of the 1994 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Magdaong, E. T., Yamano, H., & Fujii, M. (2014). Development of a Large-Scale, Long-Term Coral Cover and Disturbance Database in the Philippines. In S.-I. Nakano, T. Yahara, & T. Nakashizuka (Eds.), Integrative Observations and Assessments (pp. 83–109). Springer Japan.

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 Review.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2015, October 28). Skeleton Of Ancient Warrior Found In 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/skeleton-ancient-warrior-found-3500-year-old-greek-tomb/

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. (1986). Space Shuttle: NASA’s Procurement of Solid Rocket Booster Motors (NSIAD-86-194). 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

Olanisa, E. L. (2012). Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California [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

Thrush, G., Shear, M. D., & Sullivan, E. (2017, August 4). Former General Taking Control At White House. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wigley, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Suter & Schibler, 2009; Wigley, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Suter & Schibler, 2009)
Three authors: (Baier et al., 2007)
6 or more authors: (Dejea et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Psychology Review
Abbreviation	Health Psychol. Rev.
ISSN (print)	1743-7199
ISSN (online)	1743-7202
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology

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