How to format your references using the Current Hepatitis Reports citation style

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

1. Connolly HC Jr. From stars to dust: looking into a circumstellar disk through chondritic meteorites. Science. 2005;307:75–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schneider RA, Helms JA. The cellular and molecular origins of beak morphology. Science. 2003;299:565–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rauzi M, Lenne P-F, Lecuit T. Planar polarized actomyosin contractile flows control epithelial junction remodelling. Nature. 2010;468:1110–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kaur R, Kumar R, Bhondekar AP, Kapur P. Human opinion dynamics: an inspiration to solve complex optimization problems. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bonem JM. Problem Solving for Process Operators and Specialists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Kerikmäe T, Chochia A, editors. Political and Legal Perspectives of the EU Eastern Partnership Policy. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Shimomura Y, Watanabe K, Akasaka F, Kimita K. Fan Out of Japanese Service Engineering - the State of the Art -. In: Hesselbach J, Herrmann C, editors. Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 5th - 6th, 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 15–20.

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 Current Hepatitis Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Do You Want Trees With That? How To Stop Consumer Products Destroying The Rainforests [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/do-you-want-trees-how-stop-consumer-products-destroying-rainforests/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Progress Made in Compliance of VA Systems, But Concerns Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: AIMD-98-237.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Matta Veera Venkata S. Ensuring security and authentication using zero knowledge protocol in wireless sensor network applications [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

1. Koblin J. Schwarzenegger Won’t Return to ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ New York Times. 2017 Mar 3;B2.

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	Current Hepatitis Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hepat. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1540-3416
ISSN (online)	1541-0706
Scope	Virology Hepatology