How to format your references using the Healthcare citation style

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

Fisher, D.E. Secret to Marital Bliss? Science 2000, 290, 936b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Straus, S.E.; Chesney, M.A. Science and Government. Enhanced: In Defense of NCCAM. Science 2006, 313, 303–304.

A journal article with 3 authors

Paraje, G.; Sadana, R.; Karam, G. Public Health. Increasing International Gaps in Health-Related Publications. Science 2005, 308, 959–960.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fontanilla, D.; Johannessen, M.; Hajipour, A.R.; Cozzi, N.V.; Jackson, M.B.; Ruoho, A.E. The Hallucinogen N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) Is an Endogenous Sigma-1 Receptor Regulator. Science 2009, 323, 934–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E.L.; Medikonda, M. Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2012; ISBN 9783527664863.

An edited book

New Frontiers in Social Neuroscience; Decety, J., Christen, Y., Eds.; Research and Perspectives in Neurosciences; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; Vol. 21; ISBN 9783319029030.

A chapter in an edited book

Han, P.; Yang, J.; Shang, C.; Chang, C.-P. Chromatin Remodeling in Heart Failure. In Epigenetics in Cardiac Disease; Backs, J., McKinsey, T.A., Eds.; Cardiac and Vascular Biology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 103–124 ISBN 9783319414553.

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 Healthcare.

Blog post

Taub, B. Your Cat’s Parasites Could Make You More Into Bondage Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-cats-parasites-could-make-you-more-into-bondage/ (accessed on 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 Intercollegiate Athletics: Four-Year Colleges’ Experiences Adding and Discontinuing Teams; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2001;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kotch, S. Unduly Harsh and Unworkably Rigid: The Death Penalty in North Carolina, 1910–1961. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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

Billard, M. Jewelry Born Of Child’s Play. New York Times 2010, E7.

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	Healthcare
Abbreviation	Healthcare (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-9032
Scope