How to format your references using the Human Resources for Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Human Resources for Health. 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	Download the output style file
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

1. Midgley GF. Ecology. Biodiversity and ecosystem function. Science. 2012;335:174–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schoelkopf RJ, Girvin SM. Wiring up quantum systems. Nature. 2008;451:664–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shen Y, Knoll AH, Walter MR. Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature. 2003;423:632–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Osterloh A, Amico L, Falci G, Fazio R. Scaling of entanglement close to a quantum phase transition. Nature. 2002;416:608–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lavi MR. The Impact of IFRS on Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Ali M, Pan J-S, Chen S-M, Horng M-F, editors. Modern Advances in Applied Intelligence: 27th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2014, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, June 3-6, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Powsner S. Psychiatric Consultation in the Emergency Setting. In: Leigh H, Streltzer J, editors. Handbook of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 39–62.

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 Human Resources for Health.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Experts Call On WHO To Reconsider Global Cannabis Ban [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/experts-call-who-reconsider-global-cannabis-ban/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Jun. Report No.: AFMD-83-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nye KM. Crème de Pêche [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

1. St. JOHN KELLY E. Navy Yard, Recommissioned. New York Times. 1998 Jul 26;148.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Human Resources for Health
Abbreviation	Hum. Resour. Health
ISSN (online)	1478-4491
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Public Administration