How to format your references using the International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics. 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

Smaglik, P. (2005). Bricks and mortar. Scottish Structural Proteomics Facility, University of St Andrews, UK. Nature, 433(7026), 666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koh, L. P., & Wilcove, D. S. (2007). Cashing in palm oil for conservation. Nature, 448(7157), 993–994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackermann, M., Stearns, S. C., & Jenal, U. (2003). Senescence in a bacterium with asymmetric division. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5627), 1920.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Buskila, Y., Breen, P. P., Tapson, J., van Schaik, A., Barton, M., & Morley, J. W. (2014). Extending the viability of acute brain slices. Scientific reports, 4, 5309.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ursone, P. (2015). How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bouhafs, F. (2014). Communication Challenges and Solutions in the Smart Grid. (M. Mackay & M. Merabti, Eds.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Régnier-Loilier, A., & Perron, Z. (2015). The Birth of the First Child. In A. Régnier-Loilier (Ed.), The Contemporary Family in France: Partnership Trajectories and Domestic Organization (pp. 69–85). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, April 14). Curiosity Rover Finds Evidence Of Liquid Water On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/weather-data-curiosity-rover-suggests-briny-water-possible-mars/. 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. (1987). Social Security: State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies’ Reimbursement for the Disabled (No. HRD-87-36BR). 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

Bladen, L. (2014). Relationship of Embodied Nursing Knowledge and Client Outcomes in Home Health (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Doran, M. (2017, May 19). A Trump Plan for the Middle East? New York Times, p. A29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Koh and Wilcove 2007; Smaglik 2005).

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

Two authors: (Koh and Wilcove 2007)
Three or more authors: (Buskila et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics
ISSN (print)	1389-6563
ISSN (online)	1573-6962
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