How to format your references using the Hereditas citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hereditas. 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. Gandy S. Perspective: prevention is better than cure. Nature. 2011;475:S15.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bonnell IA, Rice WKM. Star formation around supermassive black holes. Science. 2008;321:1060–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Song K, Yeom E, Lee SJ. Real-time imaging of pulvinus bending in Mimosa pudica. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6466.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Verhaar AP, Hoekstra E, Tjon ASW, Utomo WK, Deuring JJ, Bakker ERM, et al. Dichotomal effect of space flight-associated microgravity on stress-activated protein kinases in innate immunity. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bajorski P. Statistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics: Bajorski/Statistics for Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Li A, Zhu Y, Li Y, editors. Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning: Volume 1: Indoor and Outdoor Environment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fukuda T, Arai F, Nakajima M. Micromanipulation System under Optical Microscope. In: Arai F, Nakajima M, editors. Micro-Nanorobotic Manipulation Systems and Their Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 107–36.

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 Hereditas.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Flashes Of Light Beyond The Solar System Could Indicate Comet Impacts On Exoplanets. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Reengineering: Opportunities to Improve. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Jan. Report No.: AIMD-95-67R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Escobedo K. Sana Mente Center [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Witt JF. Court Provocateur. New York Times. 2016 Oct 9;BR27.

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	Hereditas
Abbreviation	Hereditas
ISSN (online)	1601-5223
Scope	Genetics General Medicine