How to format your references using the Hellenic Journal of Surgery citation style

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

Smaglik P. A moving story. Nature. 2003 Feb 13;421(6924):765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kramer T, Wilson A. Making the move from physics to finance. Nature. 2003 Sep 11;425(6954):220–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long JCS, Loy F, Morgan MG. Policy: Start research on climate engineering. Nature. 2015 Feb 5;518(7537):29–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Peters HP, Brossard D, de Cheveigné S, Dunwoody S, Kallfass M, Miller S, et al. Science communication. Interactions with the mass media. Science. 2008 Jul 11;321(5886):204–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minenna M. The Incomplete Currency: The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Fratkin E, Roth EA, editors. As Pastoralists Settle: Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005. X, 280 p. (Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation; vol. 1).

A chapter in an edited book

Gustafsson B, Teodorescu R, Vasil’ev A. Geometric Properties. In: Teodorescu R, Vasil’ev A, editors. Classical and Stochastic Laplacian Growth. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 127–62. (Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics).

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 Hellenic Journal of Surgery.

Blog post

Luntz S. According To A Nasa Funded Study, We’re Pretty Much Screwed [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/according-nasa-funded-study-were-pretty-much-screwed/

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. NASA: Sound Management and Oversight Key to Addressing Crew Exploration Vehicle Project Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Sep. Report No.: GAO-06-1127T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dunn DN. Non-Athlete Students’ Attitudes toward Student-Athletes: A Social Identity Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Kishkovsky S. Muscovites Replace “This Old House” With “Changing Rooms.” New York Times. 2003 Oct 12;92.

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	Hellenic Journal of Surgery
Abbreviation	Hell. Cheirourgike
ISSN (print)	0018-0092
ISSN (online)	1868-8845
Scope