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

Rosenbaum TF. A new spin on magnets. Nature 2000; 404:556–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dickinson JL, Koenig WD. Ecology and evolution. Desperately seeking similarity. Science 2003; 300:1887–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Manoharan VN, Elsesser MT, Pine DJ. Dense packing and symmetry in small clusters of microspheres. Science 2003; 301:483–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ozcan U, Cao Q, Yilmaz E, Lee A-H, Iwakoshi NN, Ozdelen E, Tuncman G, Görgün C, Glimcher LH, Hotamisligil GS. Endoplasmic reticulum stress links obesity, insulin action, and type 2 diabetes. Science 2004; 306:457–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon C, Hale R. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Matulevičius R, Dumas M, editors. Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 14th International Conference, BIR 2015, Tartu, Estonia, August 26-28, 2015, Proceedings. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Biate DL, Kumar LV, Ramadoss D, Kumari A, Naik S, Reddy KK, Annapurna K. Genetic Diversity of Soybean Root Nodulating Bacteria. In: Maheshwari DK, editor. Bacterial Diversity in Sustainable Agriculture. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. page 131–45.

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

Fang J. Companion Star Hidden for 21 Years in Supernova’s Glow [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/companion-star-hidden-21-years-supernovas-glow/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Efforts to Ensure Bank Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frederiksen MD. Engaging physicians to support corporate compliance programs: A grounded theory study. 2013;

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

MacFARQUHAR N. Putin Tightens His Grip on Russia’s Parliament With an Election Rout. New York Times2016; :A8.

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