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

Mann, A. (2011). Cosmology: The hunting of the dark. Nature, 471(7339), 433–435.

A journal article with 2 authors

Duggavathi, R., & Murphy, B. D. (2009). Development. Ovulation signals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5929), 890–891.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morais-Cabral, J. H., Zhou, Y., & MacKinnon, R. (2001). Energetic optimization of ion conduction rate by the K+ selectivity filter. Nature, 414(6859), 37–42.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Suh, G. S. B., Wong, A. M., Hergarden, A. C., Wang, J. W., Simon, A. F., Benzer, S., et al. (2004). A single population of olfactory sensory neurons mediates an innate avoidance behaviour in Drosophila. Nature, 431(7010), 854–859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gadd, K. (2011). TRIZ for Engineers: Enabling Inventive Problem Solving. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dallet, D. (2005). Dynamic Characterisation of Analogue-to-Digital Converters. (J. M. da Silva, Ed.) (Vol. 860). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Salinelli, E., & Tomarelli, F. (2014). Complessità dei sistemi dinamici non lineari: biforcazioni e caos. In F. Tomarelli (Ed.), Modelli Dinamici Discreti (pp. 129–183). Milano: 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 HEC Forum.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, May 4). Cancer-Killing CRISPR Viruses Destroy Their “Command Centers” From Within. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/cancerkilling-crispr-viruses-destroy-command-centers-within/. 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. (1993). Academy Preparatory Schools (No. NSIAD-94-56R). 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

Finnegan, R. J. (2010). Information food webs: A quantitative inquiry using a biological food web methodology (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kolomatsky, M. (2017, October 5). September’s Most Popular Listings. New York Times, p. RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mann 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Duggavathi and Murphy 2009; Mann 2011).

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

Two authors: (Duggavathi and Murphy 2009)
Three or more authors: (Suh et al. 2004)

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)

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