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

Maiani L. Obituary: Nicola Cabibbo (1935-2010). Nature. 467(7313), 284 (2010).

A journal article with 2 authors

Levine AJ, Puzio-Kuter AM. The control of the metabolic switch in cancers by oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Science. 330(6009), 1340–1344 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bala ADS, Spitzer MW, Takahashi TT. Prediction of auditory spatial acuity from neural images on the owl’s auditory space map. Nature. 424(6950), 771–774 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Organ CL, Shedlock AM, Meade A, Pagel M, Edwards SV. Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaurs. Nature. 446(7132), 180–184 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Oyama T. Post-Crisis Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd., 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809.

An edited book

Balogh A. The Heliosphere through the Solar Activity Cycle. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandberg R. Least Absolute Deviation Based Unit Root Tests in Smooth Transition Type of Models. In: Advances in Non-linear Economic Modeling: Theory and Applications. Schleer-van Gellecom F (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 141–166 (2014).

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

Andrew E. Barriers, Canals And Fake Islands: How We Can Save Cities From Rising Sea Levels [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/barriers-canals-and-fake-islands-how-we-can-save-cities-rising-sea-levels/.

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. High Risk: Actions Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses in Federal Management of Programs Serving Indian Tribes. 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

Herman RL. Servant leadership: A model for organizations desiring a workplace spirituality culture. (2008).

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

Risen J. What Cold War Intrigue Can Tell Us About the Trump-Russia Inquiry. New York Times, A20 (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