How to format your references using the HEC Forum citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HEC Forum. 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

Pan, J. (2009). China expects leadership from rich nations. Nature, 461(7267), 1055.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson, A. J., & Zon, L. I. (2003). Biomedicine. Love, honor, and protect (your liver). Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5608), 835–837.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rozin, P., Haidt, J., & Fincher, K. (2009). Psychology. From oral to moral. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5918), 1179–1180.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sayrin, C., Dotsenko, I., Zhou, X., Peaudecerf, B., Rybarczyk, T., Gleyzes, S., et al. (2011). Real-time quantum feedback prepares and stabilizes photon number states. Nature, 477(7362), 73–77.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaffney, S., & Francis, C. (2009). Honesty Sells. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pohl, K. (2005). Software Product Line Engineering: Foundations, Principles, and Techniques. (G. Böckle & F. van der Linden, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandberg, R., & Rollins, M. (2013). Develop Apps Like a Pro. In M. Rollins (Ed.), The Business of Android Apps Development: Making and Marketing Apps that Succeed on Google Play, Amazon App Store and More (pp. 51–62). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

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 HEC Forum.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, July 28). Test Confirms There’s a Huge Hot Bubble Of Gas Caused By A Supernova In Our Galaxy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/test-confirms-theres-huge-hot-bubble-gas-caused-supernova-our-galaxy/. Accessed 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. (2011). Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Implementation Is Under Way, but Enhanced Technical Oversight and Performance Measures Are Needed (No. GAO-11-145). Washington, DC: 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

Spidell, R. M. (2017). Reexamining Richard Strauss’s Second Horn Concerto as a Significant Contribution to Twentieth-Century Music (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, August 21). In World of Finance, She Has Already Driven the Green. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pan 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson and Zon 2003; Pan 2009).

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

Two authors: (Davidson and Zon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sayrin et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	HEC Forum
Abbreviation	HEC Forum
ISSN (print)	0956-2737
ISSN (online)	1572-8498
Scope	Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects Health(social science)