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]

B. Shore, Obituary: Sir Raymond Firth (1901-2002), Nature 416 (2002) 384.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D.R. Reimann, P.K. Jackson, Emi1 is required for cytostatic factor arrest in vertebrate eggs, Nature 416 (2002) 850–854.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. de Mel, D. McKenzie, C. Woodruff, One-time transfers of cash or capital have long-lasting effects on microenterprises in Sri Lanka, Science 335 (2012) 962–966.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Humeau, H. Shaban, S. Bissière, A. Lüthi, Presynaptic induction of heterosynaptic associative plasticity in the mammalian brain, Nature 426 (2003) 841–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Staudt, Experimentalphysik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2001.

An edited book

[1]

L. Antunes, K. Takadama, eds., Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Vidal-Rosset, Does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Prove that Truth Transcends Proof?, in: J. van Benthem, G. Heinzmann, M. Rebuschi, H. Visser (Eds.), The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006: pp. 51–73.

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]

E. Andrew, Video: deep-sea showdown between squid and fish, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/video-deep-sea-showdown-between-squid-and-fish/ (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, Highway Infrastructure: Perceptions of Stakeholders on Approaches to Reduce Highway Project Completion Time, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.E. Friedman, Characterization of Organic Matter in Suspended Sediments Via Pyrolysis and Oxidation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

M.J. de la MERCED, A Flat First Day For Blue Apron, New York Times (2017) B4.

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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