How to format your references using the Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways. 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

McCabe H. European public remains sceptical. Nature 2000; 405: 5;

A journal article with 2 authors

Wasserman SA, DiNardo S. Development. Staying a boy forever. Science 2001; 294: 2495-97;

A journal article with 3 authors

Savrasov SY, Kotliar G, Abrahams E. Correlated electrons in delta-plutonium within a dynamical mean-field picture. Nature 2001; 410: 793-95;

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rizzini L, Favory J-J, Cloix C, et al. Perception of UV-B by the Arabidopsis UVR8 protein. Science 2011; 332: 103-6;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marsh N. Forensic Photography. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014

An edited book

Jones M, Stenseke M, eds. The European Landscape Convention: Challenges of Participation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011

A chapter in an edited book

Muller T, Liu Y, Mauw S, et al. On Robustness of Trust Systems. In: Zhou J, Gal-Oz N, Zhang J, et al., eds. Trust Management VIII: 8th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2014, Singapore, July 7-10, 2014. Proceedings. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014:44-60.

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 Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways.

Blog post

Andrew D. Dark, Cold Days May Have Been What Actually Drove The Dinosaurs Extinct. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dark-cold-days-may-have-been-what-actually-drove-the-dinosaurs-extinct/. Published January 16, 2017. Accessed October 30, 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. Electronic Government: Proposal Addresses Critical Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustillo MF. Heart and Art: Post-adoption program: A grant proposal. 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

Walsh MW. Treasury Dept. Rejects Plan to Cut Benefits for Teamsters. New York Times 2016: B1;

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Farmeconomia. Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways
ISSN (print)	1721-6915
ISSN (online)	2240-256X
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