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. Kitching RL. Ecology. Crafting the pieces of the diversity jigsaw puzzle. Science. 2006;313:1055–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Keller CB, Schoene B. Statistical geochemistry reveals disruption in secular lithospheric evolution about 2.5 Gyr ago. Nature. 2012;485:490–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kim C, Facchetti A, Marks TJ. Polymer gate dielectric surface viscoelasticity modulates pentacene transistor performance. Science. 2007;318:76–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yan N, Zhou X, Li Y, Wang F, Zhong H, Wang H, et al. Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles wrapped in multi-walled carbon nanotubes with enhanced lithium storage capability. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Van Fleet PJ. Discrete Wavelet Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Mackenzie JS, Jeggo M, Daszak P, Richt JA, editors. One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Food Safety and Security, and International and National Plans for Implementation of One Health Activities. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Horspool RN, Tillmann N. The Web. In: Tillmann N, editor. TouchDevelop: Programming on the Go. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2013. p. 53–69.

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. Andrews R. Mount Everest’s Famous Hillary Step Destroyed By 2015 Nepal Earthquake [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-everests-famous-hillary-step-destroyed-by-2015-nepal-earthquake/

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. Railroad Safety: Engineer Work Shift Length and Schedule Variability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Apr. Report No.: RCED-92-133.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pham MM-X. Flymed Pharmacy, LLC, Home Delivery Services a Business Plan [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. Zernike K. ‘A Crazy Shake.’ Then Metal Tearing, and Chaos. New York Times. 2015 May 14;A1.

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
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