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

Schlessinger, J. (2004). Common and distinct elements in cellular signaling via EGF and FGF receptors. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5701), 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pinaud, F., & Dahan, M. (2008). Biochemistry. Zooming into live cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5873), 187–188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meissner, M., Schlüter, D., & Soldati, D. (2002). Role of Toxoplasma gondii myosin A in powering parasite gliding and host cell invasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298(5594), 837–840.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jiang, D., Hao, M., Fu, J., Zhuang, D., & Huang, Y. (2014). Spatial-temporal variation of marginal land suitable for energy plants from 1990 to 2010 in China. Scientific reports, 4, 5816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matloff, R., & Chaillou, J. H. (2013). Nonprofit Investment and Development Solutions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Beckner, M. (2009). Pro RFID in BizTalk Server 2009. (M. Simms & R. Venkatesh, Eds.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Robben, A. C. G. M. (2016). Social Trauma, National Mourning, and Collective Guilt in Post-Authoritarian Argentina. In V. Broch-Due & B. E. Bertelsen (Eds.), Violent Reverberations: Global Modalities of Trauma (pp. 91–115). 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 Economics and Management.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015, July 16). Binge-Eating Cavefish Could Illuminate Human Obesity. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fat-blind-cavefish-are-constantly-hungry-healthy/. 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. (1993). [Comments on FAA Reimbursement of Employees’ Ferry Fares] (No. B-247849.3). 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

Anemaet, W. K. (2008). The effects of non -surgical interventions on osteoarthritis-like changes in the mouse knee (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Hubbard, B. (2017, March 15). Bomber Hits Courthouse in Damascus. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schlessinger 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Pinaud and Dahan 2008; Schlessinger 2004).

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

Two authors: (Pinaud and Dahan 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

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