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. Livingston JD. An electromagnetic personality. Nature. 2000;407:453.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goedert M, Cheng Y. Parkinson’s disease: Crystals of a toxic core. Nature. 2015;525:458–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cui M, Emrick T, Russell TP. Stabilizing liquid drops in nonequilibrium shapes by the interfacial jamming of nanoparticles. Science. 2013;342:460–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Flanagan JF, Mi L-Z, Chruszcz M, Cymborowski M, Clines KL, Kim Y, et al. Double chromodomains cooperate to recognize the methylated histone H3 tail. Nature. 2005;438:1181–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robson Wright M. An Introduction to Chemical Kinetics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Chattopadhyay A. Language-driven Exploration and Implementation of Partially Re-configurable ASIPs. Leupers R, Meyr H, Ascheid G, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kundu D, Nandi S. Estimating the Number of Components. In: Nandi S, editor. Statistical Signal Processing: Frequency Estimation. New Delhi: Springer India; 2012. p. 79–90.

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. Carpineti C. The Finalists From The Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Are Absolutely Astonishing [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-finalists-from-the-sony-world-photography-awards-2017-are-absolutely-astonishing/

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. Science and Technology: Information on Federal Programs and Interagency Efforts That Support Small Businesses Engaged in Manufacturing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 May. Report No.: GAO-07-714.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schroeder SK. Tau-Directed Immunotherapy for Alzheimer’s Disease [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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. Kelly S. Op-Art. New York Times. 2000 Aug 24;A27.

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

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