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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for British Journal of Health Psychology. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kushner, J. A. (2012). Development. Esophageal stem cells, where art thou? Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6098), 1051–1052.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holowka, S., & Petitto, L. A. (2002). Left hemisphere cerebral specialization for babies while babbling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1515.

A journal article with 3 authors

Karsai, M., Perra, N., & Vespignani, A. (2014). Time varying networks and the weakness of strong ties. Scientific Reports, 4, 4001.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Luo, Z.-X., Ji, Q., Wible, J. R., & Yuan, C.-X. (2003). An Early Cretaceous tribosphenic mammal and metatherian evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5652), 1934–1940.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Greenspan, D. (2008). Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Gavrilova, M. L., & Tan, C. J. K. (Eds.). (2016). Transactions on Computational Science XXVII (Vol. 9570). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mui, R., & Frankl, P. (2011). Preventing Web Application Injections with Complementary Character Coding. In V. Atluri & C. Diaz (Eds.), Computer Security – ESORICS 2011: 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Leuven, Belgium, September 12-14,2011. Proceedings (pp. 80–99). 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 British Journal of Health Psychology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, May 8). Powdered Alcohol Maker Defends Product. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/powdered-alcohol-maker-defends-product/

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. (1994). Commercial Practices: Opportunities Exist to Enhance DOD’s Sales of Surplus Aircraft Parts (NSIAD-94-189). 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

Winter, J. M. (2010). Investigating the biosynthesis of halogenated meroterpenoid natural products from marine actinomycetes [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Hartocollis, A. (2013, September 14). Two Wills, One Private Heiress. New York Times, MB1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kushner, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Holowka & Petitto, 2002; Kushner, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Holowka & Petitto, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	British Journal of Health Psychology
Abbreviation	Br. J. Health Psychol.
ISSN (print)	1359-107X
ISSN (online)	2044-8287
Scope	General Medicine Applied Psychology