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

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

Ellis, J. (2012). Higgs boson: The need for new physics. Nature, 481(7379), 24.

A journal article with 2 authors

Briffa, K. R., & Osborn, T. J. (2002). Paleoclimate. Blowing hot and cold. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5563), 2227–2228.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heywood, K. J., Naveira Garabato, A. C., & Stevens, D. P. (2002). High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean. Nature, 415(6875), 1011–1014.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Garcia-Barros, M., Paris, F., Cordon-Cardo, C., Lyden, D., Rafii, S., Haimovitz-Friedman, A., et al. (2003). Tumor response to radiotherapy regulated by endothelial cell apoptosis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5622), 1155–1159.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Charalambides, C. A. (2005). Combinatorial Methods in Discrete Distributions: Charalambides/Combinatorial. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Grazier, K. R. (2015). Hollyweird Science: From Quantum Quirks to the Multiverse. (S. Cass, Ed.) (1st ed. 2015.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Biró, P., Kern, W., Paulusma, D., & Wojuteczky, P. (2016). The Stable Fixtures Problem with Payments. In E. W. Mayr (Ed.), Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science: 41st International Workshop, WG 2015, Garching, Germany, June 17-19, 2015, Revised Papers (pp. 49–63). 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 Economics and Management.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 12). New System Lets Humans Control Mouse Genes With Their Thoughts. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/new-system-lets-humans-control-mouse-genes-their-thoughts/. 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. (1998). Surface Transportation: Improvements in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ Commodity Flow Survey (No. RCED-98-90R). 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

Thompson, T. (2010). Assessing the determinants of information technology adoption in Jamaica’s public sector using the technology acceptance model (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Barker, K., & Taylor, K. (2014, October 2). Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellis 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Briffa and Osborn 2002; Ellis 2012).

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

Two authors: (Briffa and Osborn 2002)
Three or more authors: (Garcia-Barros et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Health Economics and Management
Abbreviation	Int. J. Health Econ. Manag.
ISSN (print)	2199-9023
ISSN (online)	2199-9031
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Health Policy