How to format your references using the Health policy citation style

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

[1]

Hamilton WB. Comment on “A vestige of Earth’s oldest ophiolite.” Science 2007;318:746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Simpson SJ, Raubenheimer D. Perspective: Tricks of the trade. Nature 2014;508:S66.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Minamimoto T, Hori Y, Kimura M. Complementary process to response bias in the centromedian nucleus of the thalamus. Science 2005;308:1798–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shpyrko OG, Streitel R, Balagurusamy VSK, Grigoriev AY, Deutsch M, Ocko BM, et al. Surface crystallization in a liquid AuSi alloy. Science 2006;313:77–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Drake PP, Fabozzi FJ. The Basics of Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Xiao R. Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liu H, Coms FD, Zhang J, Gasteiger HA, LaConti AB. Chemical Degradation: Correlations Between Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell Findings. In: Büchi FN, Inaba M, Schmidt TJ, editors. Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Durability, New York, NY: Springer; 2009, p. 71–118.

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.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. World’s Most Ambitious Project To Explore Atlantic Ocean Kicks Off. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-most-ambitious-project-to-explore-atlantic-ocean-kicks-off/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Administration and Control of Procurement and Utilization of Automatic Data Processing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spillman SA. Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2014.

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

[1]

de la MERCED MJ. Oscar Health and Humana Team Up in Small-Firm Venture. New York Times 2017:B3.

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	Health policy
Abbreviation	Health Policy
ISSN (print)	0168-8510
Scope	Health Policy