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

Sterner, T. (2015). Economics: Higher costs of climate change. Nature, 527(7577), 177–178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sholl, D. S., & Johnson, J. K. (2006). Materials science. Making high-flux membranes with carbon nanotubes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5776), 1003–1004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davidson, E. A., Trumbore, S. E., & Amundson, R. (2000). Soil warming and organic carbon content. Nature, 408(6814), 789–790.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Asai, T., Tena, G., Plotnikova, J., Willmann, M. R., Chiu, W.-L., Gomez-Gomez, L., et al. (2002). MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity. Nature, 415(6875), 977–983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Langley-Evans, S. (2015). Nutrition, health and disease. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gorenflo, R. (2014). Mittag-Leffler Functions, Related Topics and Applications: Theory and Applications. (A. A. Kilbas, F. Mainardi, & S. V. Rogosin, Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Dyke Parunak, H., Brueckner, S., Downs, E. A., & Sappelsa, L. (2013). Swarming Estimation of Realistic Mental Models. In F. Giardini & F. Amblard (Eds.), Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XIII: International Workshop, MABS 2012, Valencia, Spain, June 4-8, 2012, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 43–55). 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 13). Bizarre Deformed “Unicorn” Found In Slovenia. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-unicorn-deer-found-slovenia/. 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). Federal Research: SEMATECH’s Technological Progress and Proposed R&D Program (No. RCED-92-223BR). 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

Arzaga, C. B. (2012). Homeless shelter program for the elderly in Los Angeles, California: A grant writing project (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

Rothenberg, B. (2017, January 17). Young Stars Climb Rankings, Jolting Russia’s Dormant Men’s Game to Life. New York Times, p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sterner 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Sholl and Johnson 2006; Sterner 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sholl and Johnson 2006)
Three or more authors: (Asai et al. 2002)

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

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