How to format your references using the Value in Health Regional Issues citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Value in Health Regional Issues. 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

van der Hart HW. Physics. When does photoemission begin? Science. 2010;328(5986):1645-1646.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin CR, Siwy ZS. Chemistry. Learning nature’s way: biosensing with synthetic nanopores. Science. 2007;317(5836):331-332.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nazir S, Amin B, Schwingenschlögl U. Suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas in LaGaO3/SrTiO3 by cation intermixing. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3409.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kers JA, Wach MJ, Krasnoff SB, et al. Nitration of a peptide phytotoxin by bacterial nitric oxide synthase. Nature. 2004;429(6987):79-82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Good PI. A Manager’s Guide to the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Park JJ (jong H, Chen SC, Gil JM, Yen NY, eds. Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering. Vol 308. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Munoz-Garcia F, Toro-Gonzalez D. Applications to Industrial Organization. In: Toro-Gonzalez D, ed. Strategy and Game Theory: Practice Exercises with Answers. Springer Texts in Business and Economics. Springer International Publishing; 2016:145-181.

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 Value in Health Regional Issues.

Blog post

Andrews R. We Finally Know Why People Are Left- Or Right-Handed. IFLScience.

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. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spratley AM. Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2010.

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

Pendleton I. THE HIGHWAY BEAUTIFUL; Private Citizens and State Officials Cooperate to Create Natural Scenery Along Paved Roads. New York Times. March 25, 1934:DRAMA SCREEN MUSIC RADIO FASHIONS ARTX12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Value in Health Regional Issues
Abbreviation	Value Health Reg. Issues
ISSN (print)	2212-1099
Scope	Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Health Policy Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous)