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. Smaglik P. Making a move on mobility. Nature. 2005;435:709.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zampieri N, Chao MV. Structural biology. The p75 NGF receptor exposed. Science. 2004;304:833–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bizzarro M, Baker JA, Haack H. Mg isotope evidence for contemporaneous formation of chondrules and refractory inclusions. Nature. 2004;431:275–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ding L-X, Wang A-L, Ou Y-N, Li Q, Guo R, Zhao W-X, et al. Hierarchical Pd-Sn alloy nanosheet dendrites: an economical and highly active catalyst for ethanol electrooxidation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hersent O, Petit J-P, Gurle D. IP Telephony. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Baumle AK, editor. International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Arthur LG, Timmapuri SJ. Enteral Nutrition. In: Mattei P, editor. Fundamentals of Pediatric Surgery. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. p. 27–32.

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. O`Callaghan J. This Star Torn Apart By A Black Hole Punched Its Own Tail [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-star-torn-apart-by-a-black-hole-punched-its-own-tail/

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. Higher Education: Improved Tax Information Could Help Pay for College. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jul. Report No.: GAO-12-863T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dylla AG. Synthesis, characterization and catalytic studies of bimetallic nanoparticles [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

1. Kelly D. Sex and Drugs and Mick and Keith. New York Times. 1994 Oct 16;737.

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