How to format your references using the Hepatology International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hepatology International. 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. Brumfiel G. Cosmology: welcome to the real world. Nature. 2003;426:751.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Marone F, Romanowicz B. The depth distribution of azimuthal anisotropy in the continental upper mantle. Nature. 2007;447:198–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pergams ORW, Barnes WM, Nyberg D. Mammalian microevolution: Rapid change in mouse mitochondrial DNA. Nature. 2003;423:397.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang D, Kong L, Fan P, Chen H, Zhu S, Liu W, et al. Evidence for Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor. Science. 2018;362:333–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Zheng Y, Xu X, Xu Z, Wang J, Cai H. Metallic Biomaterials. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Chesney M. Environmental Finance and Investments. Gheyssens J, Taschini L, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Heggernes P, van ’t Hof P, Lévêque B, Lokshtanov D, Paul C. Contracting Graphs to Paths and Trees. In: Marx D, Rossmanith P, editors. Parameterized and Exact Computation: 6th International Symposium, IPEC 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 6-8, 2011 Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 55–66.

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 Hepatology International.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Do Flies Have Emotions? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flies-may-have-basic-building-blocks-emotions/

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. USDA Proposal To Acquire Automatic Data Processing Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976 Apr. Report No.: LCD-76-120.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hannington RL. Power and display in the court music of Augustus the Strong: The influences affecting the composition of Johann David Heinichens’s sinfonias [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2011.

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. Williams J. Reading by Numbers. New York Times. 2017 Mar 9;BR4.

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	Hepatology International
Abbreviation	Hepatol. Int.
ISSN (print)	1936-0533
ISSN (online)	1936-0541
Scope	Hepatology