How to format your references using the h bioscience citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for h bioscience. 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

Gregg JM. Applied physics. Stressing ferroelectrics. Science 2012; 336:41–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hillaire-Marcel C, de Vernal A. Comment on “Mixed-layer deepening during Heinrich events: a multi-planktonic foraminiferal delta18O approach.” Science 2008; 320:1161; author reply 1161.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merico A, Tyrrell T, Wilson PA. Eocene/Oligocene ocean de-acidification linked to Antarctic glaciation by sea-level fall. Nature 2008; 452:979–82.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wilkinson JJ, Stoffell B, Wilkinson CC, Jeffries TE, Appold MS. Anomalously metal-rich fluids form hydrothermal ore deposits. Science 2009; 323:764–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krause TR. Leading with Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Arnold R, editor. The Universalism of Human Rights. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Both F, Gerritsen C, Hoogendoorn M, Treur J. Model-Based Default Refinement of Partial Information within an Ambient Agent. In: Mühlhäuser M, Ferscha A, Aitenbichler E, editors. Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. page 34–43.

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 h bioscience.

Blog post

Andrew E. How We Found World’s Deepest Fish In The Mariana Trench – And Why We must Keep Exploring [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-we-found-world-s-deepest-fish-mariana-trench-and-why-we-must-keep-exploring/

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. Transit Labor Arrangements: Most Transit Agencies Report Impacts Are Minimal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Espinoza M. A Latina’s educational attainment and her observations of foster youth’s educational struggles: A narrative. 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

Rothenberg B. Radwanska Upset in Straight Sets. New York Times2016; :B12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	h bioscience
ISSN (print)	2166-708X
ISSN (online)	2166-7098
Scope