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

Smaglik, P., 2003. Recruitment blueprint. Nature 422, 95.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang, Z., Li, X., 2013. Origin of flaw-tolerance in nacre. Sci. Rep. 3, 1693.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster, C.P., Pound, G.E., Cox, S.J., 2000. The ecological cost of sex. Nature 404, 281–285.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dumas, J.J., Kumar, R., Seehra, J., Somers, W.S., Mosyak, L., 2003. Crystal structure of the GpIbalpha-thrombin complex essential for platelet aggregation. Science 301, 222–226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu, M., 2005. Arithmetic and Logic in Computer Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Linderfalk, U. (Ed.), 2007. On The Interpretation of Treaties: The Modern International Law as Expressed in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Law and Philosophy Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Pachler, N., Bachmair, B., Cook, J., 2010. Whither a Socio-Cultural Ecology of Learning with Mobile Devices, in: Bachmair, B., Cook, J. (Eds.), Mobile Learning: Structures, Agency, Practices. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 155–171.

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

Carpineti, A., 2017. New Fossil Suggests More Variety Among The Oldest Extinct Penguins [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-fossil-suggests-more-variety-among-the-oldest-extinct-penguins/ (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, 1983. Corrective Actions Taken or in Process To Reduce Job Corps’ Vulnerability to Improper Use of Contracting Authority (No. HRD-83-66). 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

Schiffbauer, L.W., 2013. The pursuit of self-esteem: A help or a hindrance in thriving in the workplace? (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Film Series. New York Times C23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Huang and Li, 2013; Smaglik, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Huang and Li, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Dumas et al., 2003)

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