How to format your references using the Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation. 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

DeFelice LJ. Going against the flow. Nature. 2004;432(7015):279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hu DL, Bush JWM. Meniscus-climbing insects. Nature. 2005;437(7059):733-736.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pronin SV, Reiher CA, Shenvi RA. Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines. Nature. 2013;501(7466):195-199.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Olmeta-Schult F, Segal LM, Tyner S, et al. NextGen VOICES: Research resolutions. Science. 2018;359(6371):26-28.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandru V, Hooker J. Optimization Methods for Logical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

Dupré S, ed. Laboratories of Art: Alchemy and Art Technology from Antiquity to the 18th Century. Vol 37. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Aubonnet T, Simoni N. Service Creation and Self-management Mechanisms for Mobile Cloud Computing. In: Tsaoussidis V, Kassler AJ, Koucheryavy Y, Mellouk A, eds. Wired/Wireless Internet Communication: 11th International Conference, WWIC 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 5-7, 2013. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2013:43-55.

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: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch Live As NASA’s SMAP Satellite Launches From California. IFLScience. January 29, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-nasa-s-smap-satellite-launching-california/

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. Transportation and Telecommunications Reports and Testimony: May 1992 - April 1993. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCollough KD. Applying Military Developments in Netcentricity to Civilian Emergency Management. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Saslow L. Jets Overhead, Noise Complaints Below. New York Times. August 26, 2006:LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation
Abbreviation	Healthc. (Amst.)
ISSN (print)	2213-0764
Scope	Health Policy