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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cui W. Astronomy. Very energetic gamma rays from microblazars. Science 2005; 309:714–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pashkin A, Leitenstorfer A. Physics. Particle physics in a superconductor. Science 2014; 345:1121–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen W, Zhang S, Long X. Polarisation control through an optical feedback technique and its application in precise measurements. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1992.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lin L, Zhu HX, Jiang XM, Wang KF, Dong S, Yan ZB, Yang ZR, Wan JG, Liu J-M. Coupled ferroelectric polarization and magnetization in spinel FeCr2S4. Sci Rep 2014; 4:6530.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tran J. The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Ariola M. Magnetic Control of Tokamak Plasmas. London: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou J, Lo A, Hao J, Niemegeers I. A Multi-hop Aware Weighted Scheduling Mechanism for HSDPA and IEEE 802.11 Integrated Network. In: Osipov E, Kassler A, Bohnert TM, Masip-Bruin X, editors. Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 8th International Conference, WWIC 2010, Luleå, Sweden, June 1-3, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. page 40–51.

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. Males Of Sexually Cannibalistic Species Are Picky [Internet]. IFLScience2011 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/males-sexually-cannibalistic-spiders-are-picky/

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. Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Technical Problems, Cost Increases, and Schedule Delays Trigger Need for Difficult Trade-off Decisions. 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

Taylor MS. Too Close to the Knives: Children’s Rights, Parental Authority, and Best Interests in the Context of Elective Pediatric Surgeries. 2015;

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Back Underwriters On New Issues. New York Times2007; :C1.

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
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