How to format your references using the HBRC Journal citation style

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

[1]

J.M. Thomas, Catalysis: Tens of thousands of atoms replaced by one, Nature 525 (2015) 325–326.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Fedoroff, W. Fontana, Genetic networks. Small numbers of big molecules, Science 297 (2002) 1129–1131.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.A. Gottfried, J. O’Doherty, R.J. Dolan, Encoding predictive reward value in human amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex, Science 301 (2003) 1104–1107.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Z.D. Sha, S.S. Quek, Q.X. Pei, Z.S. Liu, T.J. Wang, V.B. Shenoy, Y.W. Zhang, Inverse pseudo Hall-Petch relation in polycrystalline graphene, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5991.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Ghavami, L.B. Michael, R. Kohno, Ultra Wideband Signals and Systems in Communication Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Adhikari, Developing Multi-Database Mining Applications, Springer, London, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Madanhire, C. Mbohwa, Green Lubricant Design and Practice Concept, in: C. Mbohwa (Ed.), Mitigating Environmental Impact of Petroleum Lubricants, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 47–58.

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 HBRC Journal.

Blog post

[1]

C. Carpineti, This Video Of A Razor Clam Digging Is Utterly Bizarre, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-video-of-a-razor-clam-digging-is-utterly-bizarre/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Telecommunications: Long-Term Strategic Vision Would Help Ensure Targeting of E-rate Funds to Highest-Priority Uses, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.H. Harris, Comparing the Effects of Traditional Face-to-face, Technology-Based, and Blended Instructional Strategies in a Post-Secondary Spanish Language Learning Environment, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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

[1]

S. Hodara, On the Glass House’s Pond, Clattering Polka Dots, New York Times (2016) CT9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	HBRC Journal
ISSN (print)	1687-4048
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