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. Colegrave N. Sex releases the speed limit on evolution. Nature. 2002;420:664–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pandolfi JM, Lovelock CE. Ecology. Novelty trumps loss in global biodiversity. Science. 2014;344:266–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gonsamo A, Chen JM, Wu C. Citizen Science: linking the recent rapid advances of plant flowering in Canada with climate variability. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2239.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Prosperi M, Veras N, Azarian T, Rathore M, Nolan D, Rand K, et al. Molecular epidemiology of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the genomic era: a cross-sectional study. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1902.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Aichinger M, Binder A. A Workout in Computational Finance. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Valavanis KP, Beard R, Oh P, Ollero A, Piegl LA, Shim H, editors. Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tereshin DA, Cherniavsky OF. Theoretical Basis and a Finite Element Formula for the Direct Calculation of Steady Plastic States. In: Fuschi P, Pisano AA, Weichert D, editors. Direct Methods for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Structures: Advanced Computational Algorithms and Material Modelling. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 81–103.

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. The Trolley Dilemma: Would You Kill One Person To Save Five? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. [Comments on Use of Frequent Flyer Credits]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Apr. Report No.: B-256481.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Slotterback D. Parent Partner Program and Organization (3P-O) parents mentoring parents in child welfare: A grant-writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Walsh MW. Pension Funds Wary as Bankrupt City Goes to Trial. New York Times. 2013 Mar 25;B1.

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