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

McCune, J. M. (2001). The dynamics of CD4+ T-cell depletion in HIV disease. Nature, 410(6831), 974–979.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schlegel, T., & Schuster, S. (2008). Small circuits for large tasks: high-speed decision-making in archerfish. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5859), 104–106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thornalley, D. J. R., Elderfield, H., & McCave, I. N. (2009). Holocene oscillations in temperature and salinity of the surface subpolar North Atlantic. Nature, 457(7230), 711–714.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Teixeira, A., Tahiri-Alaoui, A., West, S., Thomas, B., Ramadass, A., Martianov, I., et al. (2004). Autocatalytic RNA cleavage in the human beta-globin pre-mRNA promotes transcription termination. Nature, 432(7016), 526–530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strachman, D., & Bookbinder, R. (2009). Fund of Funds Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shonin, E., Gordon, W. V., & Griffiths, M. D. (Eds.). (2016). Mindfulness and Buddhist-Derived Approaches in Mental Health and Addiction (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Meslé, F., Vallin, J., & Shkolnikov, V. (2012). Is Mortality Under-Estimated? In J. Vallin (Ed.), Mortality and Causes of Death in 20th-Century Ukraine (pp. 77–88). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Luntz, S. (2015, January 10). Infants Too Young For Vaccines Catch Measles From Unvaccinated Children At Disneyland. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/disneyland-measles-outbreak-hits-children-too-young-be-vaccinated/. 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. (1992). General Services Issues (No. OCG-93-28TR). 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

Krau, C. F. (2008). A case study of congregational design and implementation of adult Christian education (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar, F., Sophia Chang on, Koblin, J., Nate Schweber in, et al. (2006, April 2). That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times, p. 14NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCune 2001).
This sentence cites two references (McCune 2001; Schlegel and Schuster 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schlegel and Schuster 2008)
Three or more authors: (Teixeira et al. 2004)

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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