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

Midgley M. Being objective. Nature. 2001 Apr 12;410(6830):753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teng MWL, Smyth MJ. Cancer. Can cancer trigger autoimmunity? Science. 2014 Jan 10;343(6167):147–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kislev ME, Hartmann A, Bar-Yosef O. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science. 2006 Jun 2;312(5778):1372–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hatakeyama T, Dai P, Harada Y, Hino H, Tsukahara F, Maru Y, et al. Connexin43 functions as a novel interacting partner of heat shock cognate protein 70. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2719.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Olsson A. Understanding Changing Telecommunications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Sagheb Talebi K. Forests of Iran: A Treasure from the Past, a Hope for the Future. Sajedi T, Pourhashemi M, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. VIII, 152 p. 86 illus., 55 illus. in color. (Plant and Vegetation; vol. 10).

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang W, Cai Y. Basis of Anisotropic Damage Mechanics. In: Cai Y, editor. Continuum Damage Mechanics and Numerical Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 217–355. (Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China).

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

Luntz S. Other Solar Systems Are Looking More Like Ours. 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. Opportunities for Improving Computerized Civilian Payroll Processing Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Mar. Report No.: FGMSD-75-15.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alexandre KM. Identifying mechanisms regulating Wnt signaling during postembryonic development [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

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

Reinhart MK. Perla Farias and David Portugal Jr. New York Times. 2010 Jul 11;ST9.

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