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

Montmerle T. Astronomy. A stellar merry-go-round. Science 2001; 293:2409–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Omenetto FG, Kaplan DL. New opportunities for an ancient material. Science 2010; 329:528–31.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor DH, Huber D, Svoboda K. Reverse engineering the mouse brain. Nature 2009; 461:923–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Haj FG, Verveer PJ, Squire A, Neel BG, Bastiaens PIH. Imaging sites of receptor dephosphorylation by PTP1B on the surface of the endoplasmic reticulum. Science 2002; 295:1708–11.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous A. Applied Metrology for Manufacturing Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

Gao RX. Wavelets: Theory and Applications for Manufacturing. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Fromhold TM, Krokhin AA, Bujkiewicz S, Wilkinson PB, Fowler D, Patanè A, Eaves L, Hardwick DPA, Balanov AG, Greenaway MT, et al. Using Stochastic Webs to Control the Quantum Transport of Electrons in Semiconductor Superlattices. In: Luo ACJ, Afraimovich V, editors. Hamiltonian Chaos Beyond the KAM Theory: Dedicated to George M. Zaslavsky (1935–2008). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. page 225–54.

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

O`Callaghan J. Don’t Miss NASA’s Amazing Rocket Booster Test Today In The Utah Desert [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dont-miss-nasas-amazing-rocket-booster-test-today-in-the-utah-desert/

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. Contract Award Protest. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liang C-C. Fate of bacterial and viral indicators in an advanced wastewater treatment plant. 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

Gustines GG. Exhibition Recalls Slam-Bang World Of Pulp Magazines. New York Times2012; :F38.

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