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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Health 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	Download the output style file
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

Sreenivasan, S., 2013. Quantitative analysis of the evolution of novelty in cinema through crowdsourced keywords. Sci. Rep. 3, 2758.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marmorstein, R., Simon, M.C., 2015. Structural biology: Hypoxia response becomes crystal clear. Nature 524, 298–300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Binshtok, A.M., Bean, B.P., Woolf, C.J., 2007. Inhibition of nociceptors by TRPV1-mediated entry of impermeant sodium channel blockers. Nature 449, 607–610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, I., Yoganarasimha, D., Rao, G., Knierim, J.J., 2004. Comparison of population coherence of place cells in hippocampal subfields CA1 and CA3. Nature 430, 456–459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 2003. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sukhoivanov, I.A., 2009. Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling, Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Selvan, S.T., Narayanan, K., 2016. Multifunctional Nanoparticles, in: Narayanan, K. (Ed.), Introduction to Nanotheranostics, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Singapore, pp. 69–79.

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 Journal of Health Economics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. SpaceX Wants To Start Launching Its Space Internet Satellites In 2019 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2011. Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Improve Security, but Additional Efforts Remain (No. GAO-11-807T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ciolek, R., 2017. A Mixed Method Study on the Missouri Beginning Teachers Assistance Program and Teacher Retention in Saint Louis School Districts (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Feeney, K., 2010. Licks of the Tropics. New York Times NJ7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sreenivasan, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Marmorstein and Simon, 2015; Sreenivasan, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Marmorstein and Simon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Health Economics
Abbreviation	J. Health Econ.
ISSN (print)	0167-6296
Scope	Health Policy Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health