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

Wark, D. (2014). Particle physics: The hunt for Majorana neutrinos hots up. Nature, 510(7504), 224–225.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gervais, W. M., & Norenzayan, A. (2012). Analytic thinking promotes religious disbelief. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6080), 493–496.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsuchida, T., Koga, R., & Fukatsu, T. (2004). Host plant specialization governed by facultative symbiont. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5666), 1989.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zubir, N. A., Yacou, C., Motuzas, J., Zhang, X., & Diniz da Costa, J. C. (2014). Structural and functional investigation of graphene oxide-Fe3O4 nanocomposites for the heterogeneous Fenton-like reaction. Scientific reports, 4, 4594.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Traitler, H., Coleman, B., & Hofmann, K. (2015). Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Frolova, M., Prados, M.-J., & Nadaï, A. (Eds.). (2015). Renewable Energies and European Landscapes: Lessons from Southern European Cases. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Shahid, A., Wilkinson, K., Marcu, S., & Shapiro, C. M. (2012). Apnea Knowledge Test. In A. Shahid, K. Wilkinson, S. Marcu, & C. M. Shapiro (Eds.), STOP, THAT and One Hundred Other Sleep Scales (pp. 49–51). New York, NY: 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

Fang, J. (2014, December 19). NASA Just Emailed A Wrench To The International Space Station. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2003). Airline Ticketing: Impact of Changes in the Airline Ticket Distribution Industry (No. GAO-03-749). 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

De los Santos, E. (2014). Increasing the psychological well-being of undocumented Latino youth students in California: A grant proposal (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

Rao, T. (2017, June 29). Comfort Food. New York Times, p. BR13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wark 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gervais and Norenzayan 2012; Wark 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gervais and Norenzayan 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zubir et al. 2014)

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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