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

Wagner PJ. EVOLUTION. One era you are in—the next you are out. Science 2015; 350:736–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stern A, Lindner NH. Topological quantum computation--from basic concepts to first experiments. Science 2013; 339:1179–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jacobs SS, Giulivi CF, Mele PA. Freshening of the Ross Sea during the late 20th century. Science 2002; 297:386–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Mogera U, Sagade AA, George SJ, Kulkarni GU. Ultrafast response humidity sensor using supramolecular nanofibre and its application in monitoring breath humidity and flow. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

The Family Firm Institute, Inc. Family Enterprise. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Tazreiter C. Fluid Security in the Asia Pacific: Transnational Lives, Human Rights and State Control. 1st ed. 2016. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Finley SC. “We Needed Both of Them”: The Continuing Relevance of Rev. Albert B. Cleage Jr.’s (Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman’s) Radical Interpretations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in Scholarship and Black Protest Thought. In: Clark JE, editor. Albert Cleage Jr. and the Black Madonna and Child. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. page 59–76.

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

Luntz S. Group Files Lawsuit Against Kansas For Teaching Science In Science Class [Internet]. IFLScience2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/science-curriculum-back-kansas-courtrooms/

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. Telecommunications: Market Developments in the Global Satellite Services Industry and the Implementation of the ORBIT Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Delmont LO. Wings pumping, wings stilled. 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

Poniewozik J. How a TV Critic Manages a Franchise. New York Times2017; :A2.

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