How to format your references using the Heritage Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Heritage Science. 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. DiBiase RA. Earth science: River incision revisited. Nature. 2014;505:294–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Huber M, Caballero R. Eocene El Niño: evidence for robust tropical dynamics in the “hothouse.” Science. 2003;299:877–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Spinner M, Westhoff G, Gorb SN. Subdigital setae of chameleon feet: friction-enhancing microstructures for a wide range of substrate roughness. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5481.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang X, Rodrigues T, Jiang S, Cheng X, Kellner AWA. An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hezaveh A. SAS® 9 Study Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

1. Tolan PH, Leventhal BL, editors. Disruptive Behavior Disorders. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Poels G, Gailly F, Maes A, Paemeleire R. Object Class or Association Class? Testing the User Effect on Cardinality Interpretation. In: Akoka J, Liddle SW, Song I-Y, Bertolotto M, Comyn-Wattiau I, Heuvel W-J van D, et al., editors. Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2005 Workshops AOIS, BP-UML, CoMoGIS, eCOMO, and QoIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. p. 33–42.

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 Heritage Science.

Blog post

1. Davis J. New Species Of Giant Dinosaur Weighed The Same As Eight African Elephants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-of-giant-dinosaur-weighed-the-same-as-eight-african-elephants/

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. Child Support Enforcement: Leadership Essential to Implementing Effective Automated Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Sep. Report No.: T-AIMD-97-162.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wansapura AN. The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2010.

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. Murphy MJO. Ethel M. Smyth, Opera Composer, Met a Chorus of Critical Disdain in 1903. New York Times. 2016 Feb 19;C27.

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	Heritage Science
Abbreviation	Herit. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2050-7445
Scope