How to format your references using the Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. 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

Young ED. Geochemistry. Strange water in the solar system. Science. 2007;317(5835):211-212.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bramwell ST, Gingras MJ. Spin ice state in frustrated magnetic pyrochlore materials. Science. 2001;294(5546):1495-1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sweeney A, Jiggins C, Johnsen S. Insect communication: Polarized light as a butterfly mating signal. Nature. 2003;423(6935):31-32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhao T, Zhu Y, Morinibu A, et al. HIF-1-mediated metabolic reprogramming reduces ROS levels and facilitates the metastatic colonization of cancers in lungs. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singh MP, Huhns MN. Service-Oriented Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Munk R, ed. Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics. Vol 13. Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Bourg E. Hypergravity in Drosophila melanogaster. In: Bourg EL, Rattan SIS, eds. Mild Stress and Healthy Aging: Applying Hormesis in Aging Research and Interventions. Springer Netherlands; 2008:43-63.

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: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.

Blog post

Carpineti A. DNA Could Be Used As Nanowire. IFLScience. June 23, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/dna-could-be-used-as-nanowire/

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. Space Station: Impact of the Grounding of the Shuttle Fleet. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Roberts DM. Resilience in Physically Maltreated Adolescents: Interpersonally Related Protective Factors and Gender Differences. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2017.

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

Burfoot A, Hirsch GA. The Honorable Clan Of the Long-Distance Runner. New York Times. September 30, 2012:SP11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
Abbreviation	Healthc. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	2213-0764
Scope	Health Policy