How to format your references using the Health Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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 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

Chemler SR. 2013. Chemistry. Copper’s contribution to amination catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341(6146): 624–626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt S, Clauset A. 2013. Environmental structure and competitive scoring advantages in team competitions. Scientific Reports 3: 3067.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao BS, Meijer G, Schöllkopf W. 2011. Quantum reflection of He2 several nanometers above a grating surface. Science (New York, N.Y.) 331(6019): 892–894.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rees M, Condit R, Crawley M, Pacala S, Tilman D. 2001. Long-term studies of vegetation dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293(5530): 650–655.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ma AD, Roberts HR, Escobar MA. 2012. Hemophilia and Hemostasis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Oxford.

An edited book

Barnhill RL, Piepkorn MW, Busam KJ eds. 2014. Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Melanoma. 3rd ed. 2014. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ouzzani M, Bouguettaya A. 2011. Web Services Query Execution and Optimization, In Semantic Web Services for Web Databases, Bouguettaya A (ed). Springer: New York, NY; 57–76.

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 Health Economics.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2016. Birds May Be Protecting Atlanta From West Nile Virus. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/birds-may-be-protecting-atlanta-from-west-nile-virus/ [Accessed 30 October 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. 2004. Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Efforts to Strengthen Its Enforcement Activities. 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

Dandavate R. 2006. Building Cultural Understanding Through Cultural Exchange. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH.

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

Pilon M. 2013. For Some Players, Tax Ensures a Loss Even After a Win. New York Times: B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chemler, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Chemler, 2013; Merritt and Clauset, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Merritt and Clauset, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Rees et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Economics
Abbreviation	Health Econ.
ISSN (online)	1099-1050
Scope	Health Policy