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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Nakano H. Survey of the Japanese coast reveals abundant placozoan populations in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 19;4:5356.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Schuster-Böckler B, Lehner B. Chromatin organization is a major influence on regional mutation rates in human cancer cells. Nature. 2012 Aug 23;488(7412):504–7.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Ye J, Kimble HJ, Katori H. Quantum state engineering and precision metrology using state-insensitive light traps. Science. 2008 Jun 27;320(5884):1734–8.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Itatani J, Levesque J, Zeidler D, Niikura H, Pépin H, Kieffer JC, et al. Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals. Nature. 2004 Dec 16;432(7019):867–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Silvia JE. Dynamic Economic Decision Making. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.
An edited book
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Regal W. Vienna A Doctor’s Guide: 15 walking tours through Vienna’s medical history. Nanut M, editor. Vienna: Springer; 2007. X, 190 p. With numerous illus. in color.
A chapter in an edited book
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Paegelow M, Camacho MTO, Ferraty F, Ferré L, Sarda P, Villa N. Prospective modelling of environmental dynamics: A methodological comparison applied to mountain land cover changes. In: Paegelow M, Olmedo MTC, editors. Modelling Environmental Dynamics: Advances in Geomatic Solutions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 141–67. (Environmental Science and Engineering).

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
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Hale T. Human Doctors Are Still Better Than Online Symptom Checkers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/human-doctors-are-still-better-than-online-symptom-checkers/

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
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Government Accountability Office. [Comments on H.R. 4086]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Apr. Report No.: B-208159.9.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Kent L. Justification-Suppression of Gender and Race Bias in Hiring: The Impact of Accountability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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
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Hartocollis A, Moynihan C. Official Says Druggist Stole 200,000 Pills of Oxycodone. New York Times. 2014 Jul 9;A18.

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 titleHuisarts en Wetenschap
AbbreviationHuisarts Wet.
ISSN (print)0018-7070
ISSN (online)1876-5912
ScopeFamily Practice

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