How to format your references using the Hepatic Oncology citation style

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

Silk JB. Social components of fitness in primate groups. Science. 317(5843), 1347–1351 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Sachs J, Malaney P. The economic and social burden of malaria. Nature. 415(6872), 680–685 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Hiroi T, Zolensky ME, Pieters CM. The Tagish Lake meteorite: a possible sample from a D-type asteroid. Science. 293(5538), 2234–2236 (2001).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sureshkumar S, Todesco M, Schneeberger K, Harilal R, Balasubramanian S, Weigel D. A genetic defect caused by a triplet repeat expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science. 323(5917), 1060–1063 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pederson LD. Dialectical Behavior Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pineda JA, editor. Mirror Neuron Systems: The Role of Mirroring Processes in Social Cognition. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Mantecón T, del-Blanco CR, Jaureguizar F, García N. Hand Gesture Recognition Using Infrared Imagery Provided by Leap Motion Controller. In: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 17th International Conference, ACIVS 2016, Lecce, Italy, October 24-27, 2016, Proceedings. Blanc-Talon J, Distante C, Philips W, Popescu D, Scheunders P (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 47–57 (2016).

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 Hepatic Oncology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Satellite Will Test Einstein’s Theory Of General Relativity [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/french-satellite-set-test-fundamental-principle-physics/.

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. Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cinquemani S. Fostering New Spaces: Challenging Dominant Constructions of Power and Knowledge in Early Childhood Art Education. (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

Baker P. Reluctantly, Trump Recertifies Iran’s Compliance With Nuclear Agreement. New York Times, A7 (2017).

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	Hepatic Oncology
Abbreviation	Hepat. Oncol.
ISSN (print)	2045-0923
ISSN (online)	2045-0931
Scope	Hepatology Oncology