Vancouver referencing style
Journal of Health Administration use Vancouver style for citations. Please be careful in using this style and punctuations.
- Citations to websites without clear authorships, preprints, and retracted articles are not acceptable in this journal.
- The bibliographic information of all sources used (including printed sources, unpublished materials, audiovisual media, internet sources) in the study should be listed in the order of citation in the text and enclosed in square brackets [ ].
- The references should be formatted according to the Vancouver international standard. Please note that the reference formatting guide in Vancouver style is available on the journal’s website. Please write the journal title in full not in abbreviated form and include doi for each cited sources. If doi is not available, please add URL to end of each citation.
- All references should be written in English.
- The bibliographic information for articles published in Persian should also be in English, and at the end of the reference, the phrase "In Persian" should be added in brackets.
- For articles that are accepted but not yet published, the phrase “In Press” should be included in the bibliographic information.
- Personal communications (such as personal letters, diaries, interviews, emails, etc.) and preprints must not be cited.
- Do not cite retracted articles in journals. According to the guidelines of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, authors can search for retracted publications on PubMed by searching for "retracted publication [pt]". The term “pt” refers to the publication type.
In text citation
- Please use [] to include reference numbers.
- Please cite materials and number them in order they appear in the text.
- References in Persian and English texts should be cited separately from the number 1.
- Each reference should be assigned a unique reference number.
- If the author name is appeared in the text, please cite it immediately. For example, according to Smith [10]……
- If several references are cited, please use these styles: [14-18] or [14,15,18] or [14, 15-18] accordingly.
Reference list
Book
Please mention up to six authors.
Number of reference. Author(s). Title. Edition (if not first edition). Translator(s) (if needed). Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication.
Example: Bryman A. Social research methods. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2008.
Example: Smith GA, Johson T, Turner PW, Robinson H, Francis BN, Chapman A, et al.
Book chapter
Number of reference. Author(s). Title. Edition (if not first edition). Translator(s) (if needed). Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Chapter number, Chapter title; Page range.
Example: Field A. Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics: and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. 4th ed. London: Sage; 2013. Chapter 5, The beast of bias; p. 163-213.
Book chapter in an edited book
Number of reference. Chapter author(s). Chapter title. In: Editor(s). Title. Edition (if not first edition). Translator(s) (if needed). Place of publication: Publisher; Year of publication. Page range.
Example 1. Eberle TS, Maeder C. Organizational ethnography. In: Silverman D, editor. Qualitative research: issues of theory, method and practice. 3rd ed. London: SAGE; 2011. p. 53-73.
Conference proceedings
Number of reference. Author(s) of paper. Title of paper. In: Editor(s). Title of book. Conference title; Date of conference; Place of conference. Translator (if needed). Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication. Page range.
Example: Yanagisawa K, Saido TC. Amyloidogenesis and cholesterol. In: Mapping the progress of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases; 2001 Mar 31-Apr 5; Kyoto, Japan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum; 2002. p. 13-18.
Number of reference. Editor(s). Title of book. Conference title; Date of conference; Place of conference. Translator (if needed). Place of publication: Publisher; Date of publication.
Example: Mizuno Y, Fisher A, Hanin I, editors. Mapping the progress of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases; 2001 Mar 31-Apr 5; Kyoto, Japan. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum; 2002.
Thesis and dissertation
Number of reference. Author. Title [Medium]. [Place of publication]: Publisher; Date.
Example: The use of mobile laptops among health care professionals in the clinical setting [PhD thesis]. Tehran: Iran University of Medical Sciences; 2017. [In Persian]
Example: Vickers S. An oral history examination of how technology has impacted on library space using the University of Sheffield Library as a case study [Master's dissertation]. Sheffield: University of Sheffield; 2008.
Journal articles
Number of reference. Author(s). Article title. Journal title. Date of publication; Volume(Issue):Page number. Available from: URL or doi:
Example: Longo DL, Armitage JO. Controversies in the treatments of early-stage Hodgkin's lymphoma. New England Journal of Medicine. 2015; 372(17):1667-9. doi:
Websites
Number of reference. Author (if available). Title [Type of medium]. Edition (if available, e.g. American ed.) Place of Publication: Publisher; Date of publication [Date of update; date of revision]. Available from: (e.g. URL)
Example: Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): Making sense of evidence [Internet]. Oxford: CASP; 2013 [cited 2015 Aug 1]. Available from: http://www.casp-uk.net
Number of reference. Title of homepage [Medium e.g. Internet]. Place of Publication: Publisher; Date of Publication. Title of part of website; Date of publication if different to homepage [Date of Update/Revision; Date of citation]; [Number of screens/pages]: Available from:
Example: NHS Choices [Internet]. Leeds (UK): Health and Social Care Information Centre; c2006. Behind the Headlines [Updated 2015 Aug 12; cited 2015 Aug 12]; [about 3 p.]. Available from: http://www.nhs.uk/news/Pages/NewsIndex.aspx
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