How to format your references using the Health Policy and Planning citation style

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

McGrew WC. 2000. Dental care in chimps. Science (New York, N.Y.) 288: 1747b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dijk D-J, Skeldon AC. 2015. Biological rhythms: Human sleep before the industrial era. Nature 527: 176–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuno T, Tada K, Watanabe Y. 2009. Kinetochore geometry defined by cohesion within the centromere. Nature 458: 852–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Knutti R, Flückiger J, Stocker TF, Timmermann A. 2004. Strong hemispheric coupling of glacial climate through freshwater discharge and ocean circulation. Nature 430: 851–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quadbeck-Seeger H-J. 2007. World of the Elements. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Kozielski S, Mrozek D, Kasprowski P, Małysiak-Mrozek B, Kostrzewa D (eds). 2015. Beyond Databases, Architectures and Structures: 11th International Conference, BDAS 2015, Ustroń, Poland, May 26-29, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Adl-Tabatabai A-R, Kozyrakis C, Saha B. 2009. Optimizing Memory Transactions for Multicore Systems. In: Keckler SW, Olukotun K, Hofstee HP (eds). Multicore Processors and Systems. Springer US: Boston, MA, 145–72.

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 Policy and Planning.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2015. This Is What It Would Look Like If A Huge Asteroid Hit The Earth. 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. 1998. Child Support Enforcement: Certification Process for State Information Systems. No. AIMD-98-134. 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

Hsieh H-C. 2010. Self-access center and autonomous learning: EFL college students’ motivations, activities and perceptions of learning effectiveness. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Crow K. 2001. 11,500 Sq. Ft., Avail. Jan. 1, (After the Inauguration). New York Times: 144.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGrew, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (McGrew, 2000; Dijk and Skeldon, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Dijk and Skeldon, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Knutti et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Policy and Planning
Abbreviation	Health Policy Plan.
ISSN (print)	0268-1080
ISSN (online)	1460-2237
Scope	Health Policy