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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Hepatology 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. Wickware P. Progress from a fragile start. Nature. 2000;403:466.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Levine AJ, Puzio-Kuter AM. The control of the metabolic switch in cancers by oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Science. 2010;330:1340–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Davis MC, Dahn RD, Shubin NH. An autopodial-like pattern of Hox expression in the fins of a basal actinopterygian fish. Nature. 2007;447:473–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gong H, Li J, Xu A, Tang Y, Ji W, Gao R, et al. An electron transfer path connects subunits of a mycobacterial respiratory supercomplex. Science. 2018;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fliszár S. Atomic Charges, Bond Properties, and Molecular Energies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Ganguly S, Krishnamurti R, editors. Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics: First International Conference, CALDAM 2015, Kanpur, India, February 8-10, 2015. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Plagnol AC. Chasing the ‘Good Life’: Gender Differences in Work Aspirations of American Men and Women. In: Eckermann E, editor. Gender, Lifespan and Quality of Life: An International Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 49–61.

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 Hepatology Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Brain Stimulation May Treat Severe Depression Better Than Meds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-stimulation-may-treat-severe-depression-better-meds/

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. Technology Transfer: Federal Agencies’ Patent Licensing Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Apr. Report No.: RCED-91-80.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crooks RH. Analysis Of The XY Spin 1/2 Model In Staggered Field And Networks Of D-Wave Josephson Junctions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2012.

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. Wagner J. Syndergaard, Last Man Standing, Is Natural Choice for Survival Game. New York Times. 2016 Oct 5;B9.

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 Hepatology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hepatol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2195-9595
Scope	Virology Hepatology