How to format your references using the Health Psychology citation style

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

Hillmyer, M. A. (2007). Materials science. Micelles made to order. Science (New York, N.Y.), 317(5838), 604–605.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yu, H. K., & Lee, J.-L. (2014). Growth mechanism of metal-oxide nanowires synthesized by electron beam evaporation: a self-catalytic vapor-liquid-solid process. Scientific Reports, 4, 6589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halpin, A., Johnson, P. J. M., & Miller, R. J. D. (2014). Comment on “Engineering coherence among excited states in synthetic heterodimer systems.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 344(6188), 1099.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Zhu, X., Yan, Z., Wu, W., Zeng, W., Du, Y., Zhong, Y., Zhai, H., Ji, H., & Zhu, Y. (2014). Manipulating size of Li3V2(PO4)3 with reduced graphene oxide: towards high-performance composite cathode for lithium ion batteries. Scientific Reports, 4, 5768.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, P., & Marrongelle, K. (2012). Having Success with NSF. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Mellouli, K. (Ed.). (2007). Symbolic and Quantitative Approaches to Reasoning with Uncertainty: 9th European Conference, ECSQARU 2007, Hammamet, Tunisia, October 31 - November 2, 2007. Proceedings (Vol. 4724). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, H.-J., Seo, K. K., Lee, H.-K., & Kim, J. (2016). Clinical Anatomy of the Midface for Filler Injection. In K. K. Seo, H.-K. Lee, & J. Kim (Eds.), Clinical Anatomy of the Face for Filler and Botulinum Toxin Injection (pp. 119–151). Springer.

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 Psychology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017, January 5). Researchers Develop Antibiotic Spider Silk That Could Be Used To Treat Wounds. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-develop-antibiotic-spider-silk-that-could-be-used-to-treat-wounds/

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. (2014). Small Business Research Programs: Agencies Did Not Consistently Comply with Spending and Reporting Requirements (GAO-14-567T). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winkelhake, B. (2015). Verbal argumentativeness: A study of retail store managers [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Phoenix.

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

Mullen, M. G. (2017, September 29). The Refugees We Need. New York Times, A25.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hillmyer, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Hillmyer, 2007; Yu & Lee, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yu & Lee, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Health Psychology
Abbreviation	Health Psychol.
ISSN (print)	0278-6133
ISSN (online)	1930-7810
Scope	Psychiatry and Mental health Applied Psychology