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

Slonczewski, J. (2000). Tuberculosis bacteria join UN. Nature, 405(6790), 1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jackson, S. T., & Hobbs, R. J. (2009). Ecological restoration in the light of ecological history. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5940), 567–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jarillo-Herrero, P., van Dam, J. A., & Kouwenhoven, L. P. (2006). Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature, 439(7079), 953–956.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Verma, R., Aravind, L., Oania, R., McDonald, W. H., Yates, J. R., 3rd, Koonin, E. V., & Deshaies, R. J. (2002). Role of Rpn11 metalloprotease in deubiquitination and degradation by the 26S proteasome. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5593), 611–615.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shaw, M. T. (2011). Introduction to Polymer Rheology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Leung, V. C. M., & Chen, M. (Eds.). (2014). Cloud Computing: 4th International Conference, CloudComp 2013, Wuhan, China, October 17-19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 133). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Jääskeläinen, A., Katara, M., Kervinen, A., Heiskanen, H., Maunumaa, M., & Pääkkönen, T. (2008). Model-Based Testing Service on the Web. In K. Suzuki, T. Higashino, A. Ulrich, & T. Hasegawa (Eds.), Testing of Software and Communicating Systems: 20th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom 2008 8th International Workshop, FATES 2008 Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings (pp. 38–53). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Davis, J. (2016, July 20). Biohybrid Robo Sea Slug Developed That Could Help Search For Black Boxes. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/biohybrid-robo-sea-slug-developed-that-could-help-search-for-black-boxes/. 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. (1979). Federal Research and Development Budget (No. 094379). 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

Hoang, T. T. (2017). Acoustic and Image Vehicle Classification System (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Pilon, M. (2012, May 19). Table Tennis Beside a Bank, and Other Contests Intended to ‘Reclaim’ Midtown. New York Times, p. D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Slonczewski 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Jackson and Hobbs 2009; Slonczewski 2000).

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

Two authors: (Jackson and Hobbs 2009)
Three or more authors: (Verma et al. 2002)

About the journal

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

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