How to format your references using the Games for Health Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Games for Health Journal. 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

Marty B. Planetary science. The primordial porridge. Science 2006;312(5774):706–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts DL, Solow AR. Flightless birds: when did the dodo become extinct? Nature 2003;426(6964):245.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meng J, Wang Y, Li C. Transitional mammalian middle ear from a new Cretaceous Jehol eutriconodont. Nature 2011;472(7342):181–185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji Y, Chung Y, Sprinzak D, et al. An electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Nature 2003;422(6930):415–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kassapoglou C. Modeling the Effect of Damage in Composite Structures. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Poernomo IH. Adapting Proofs-as-Programs: The Curry-Howard Protocol. (Wirsing M, Crossley JN. eds). Monographs in Computer Science. Springer: New York, NY; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

O’Hearn P. Tutorial on Separation Logic (Invited Tutorial). In: Computer Aided Verification: 20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008 Proceedings. (Gupta A, Malik S. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 19–21.

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 Games for Health Journal.

Blog post

Evans K. 4 Things You Can Literally Learn While You Sleep. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/4-things-you-can-literally-learn-while-you-sleep/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. U.S. International Energy Research and Development Program Management. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan BA. Computer-Based Versus Paper-Pencil Modes of Administration United States Government End of Course Exams: Student Cumulative Grade Point Averages as Predictors of Success. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO; 2012.

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

Rashbaum WK, Schwirtz M. City Jails Chief Fires Deputy Accused of Eavesdropping. New York Times 2017;A23.

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	Games for Health Journal
ISSN (print)	2161-783X
ISSN (online)	2161-7856
Scope