How to format your references using the Huisarts en Wetenschap citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Huisarts en Wetenschap. 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

Wand AJ. On the dynamic origins of allosteric activation. Science. 2001 Aug 24;293(5534):1395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gorlach S, Slabicki M. Scientists and societies. The Polish biotech gap. Nature. 2004 Feb 26;427(6977):870.

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor BW, Flecker AS, Hall RO Jr. Loss of a harvested fish species disrupts carbon flow in a diverse tropical river. Science. 2006 Aug 11;313(5788):833–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee SJR, Escobedo-Lozoya Y, Szatmari EM, Yasuda R. Activation of CaMKII in single dendritic spines during long-term potentiation. Nature. 2009 Mar 19;458(7236):299–304.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zaragoza Dörwald F. Side Reactions in Organic Synthesis. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Jovane F. The ManuFuture Road: Towards Competitive and Sustainable High-Adding-Value Manufacturing. Westkämper E, Williams D, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. XXIII, 261 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cody AJ, Colles FM, Sheppard SK, Maiden MCJ. Where Does Campylobacter Come From? A Molecular Odyssey. In: Finn A, Curtis N, Pollard AJ, editors. Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children VI. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. p. 47–56. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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 Huisarts en Wetenschap.

Blog post

Davis J. Alzheimer’s Drug Could Be Used To Naturally Regenerate Teeth. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Data Security Software. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jan. Report No.: 133201.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choi Y. Three essays on econometrics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2012.

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

Wagner J. Kershaw Delivers His Best Playoff Performance, Leaving Cubs Flustered. New York Times. 2016 Oct 17;D2.

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	Huisarts en Wetenschap
Abbreviation	Huisarts Wet.
ISSN (print)	0018-7070
ISSN (online)	1876-5912
Scope	Family Practice