How to format your references using the Healthcare citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Healthcare. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gilbert, N. Who Speaks for Science in Europe? Nature 2009, 460, 672–673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barry, C.; Doeller, C.F. Neuroscience. 3D Mapping in the Brain. Science 2013, 340, 279–280.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gawronski, H.; Mehlhorn, M.; Morgenstern, K. Imaging Phonon Excitation with Atomic Resolution. Science 2008, 319, 930–933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yao, M.; Kuratani, K.; Kojima, T.; Takeichi, N.; Senoh, H.; Kiyobayashi, T. Indigo Carmine: An Organic Crystal as a Positive-Electrode Material for Rechargeable Sodium Batteries. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 3650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hornberg, A. Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2017; ISBN 9783527413409.

An edited book

Advances in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2010); Demazeau, Y., Dignum, F., Corchado, J.M., Pérez, J.B., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 70; ISBN 9783642123832.

A chapter in an edited book

Verheul, H.M.W.; Pinedo, H.M. Angiogenesis Inhibitors: What Is the Clinical Future? In Advances in Targeted Cancer Therapy; Herrling, P.L., Matter, A., Schultz, R.M., Eds.; Progress in Drug Research; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2005; pp. 67–91 ISBN 9783764371746.

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 Healthcare.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. NASA Is Preparing To Send A Spacecraft Closer To The Sun Than Ever Before (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Improved Accounting Control Over Equipment at the Kennedy Space Center; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1970;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beeler, M.C. Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2010.

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

Rothenberg, B. Federer and Nadal Have Never Met In New York, but Have Come Close. New York Times 2017, B11.

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	Healthcare
Abbreviation	Healthcare (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-9032
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