How to format your references using the Augmented Human Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Augmented Human Research. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Skands P (2014) Particle physics: The mass of a top. Nature 514:174–176

A journal article with 2 authors

Handschin C, Spiegelman BM (2008) The role of exercise and PGC1alpha in inflammation and chronic disease. Nature 454:463–469

A journal article with 3 authors

Mercader J, Panger M, Boesch C (2002) Excavation of a chimpanzee stone tool site in the African rainforest. Science 296:1452–1455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brunson JK, McKinnie SMK, Chekan JR, et al (2018) Biosynthesis of the neurotoxin domoic acid in a bloom-forming diatom. Science 361:1356–1358

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marteel-Parrish AE, Abraham MA (2013) Green Chemistry and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schmitz TL (2012) Mechanical Vibrations: Modeling and Measurement, 1st ed. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Ji Y, Christopherson GT, Kluk MW, et al (2012) Heterotopic Ossification Following Musculoskeletal Trauma: Modeling Stem and Progenitor Cells in Their Microenvironment. In: Rhim JS, Kremer R (eds) Human Cell Transformation: Role of Stem Cells and the Microenvironment. Springer, New York, NY, pp 39–50

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 Augmented Human Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Could We Spot Aliens From Their Pollution? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/could-we-spot-aliens-their-pollution/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1969) Use of Fixed-Price Contracts for the Procurement of Studies and Investigations of Research and Development Matters. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Altiparmak F (2008) Online Management and Mining of Heteregenous and Dynamic Time Series. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Lemon. New York Times C6

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	Augmented Human Research
Abbreviation	Augment. Hum. Res.
ISSN (print)	2365-4317
ISSN (online)	2365-4325
Scope

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