How to format your references using the Hesperia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hesperia. 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

Arrow, H. 2007. “Evolution. The Sharp End of Altruism,” Science 318, pp. 581–582.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers, R. D., and K. R. Seddon. 2003. “Chemistry. Ionic Liquids--Solvents of the Future?,” Science 302, pp. 792–793.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murthy, V. R., W. van Westrenen, and Y. Fei. 2003. “Experimental Evidence That Potassium Is a Substantial Radioactive Heat Source in Planetary Cores,” Nature 423, pp. 163–165.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bizzarro, M., J. A. Baker, H. Haack, D. Ulfbeck, and M. Rosing. 2003. “Early History of Earth’s Crust-Mantle System Inferred from Hafnium Isotopes in Chondrites,” Nature 421, pp. 931–933.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vacca, J. R. 2006. Optical Networking Best Practices Handbook, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bennetzen, J. L., and S. C. Hake, eds. 2009. Handbook of Maize: Its Biology, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Blin, G., and R. Rizzi. 2005. “Conserved Interval Distance Computation Between Non-Trivial Genomes,” in Computing and Combinatorics: 11th Annual International Conference, COCOON 2005 Kunming, China, August 16–19, 2005 Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), ed. L. Wang, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 22–31.

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 Hesperia.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2016, June 29. “Animals With Glowing Courtship Displays Are More Likely To Diversify.”

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

Government Accountability Office. 1992. “Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1990.”

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Evans, M. D. 2014. “A Correlational Analysis of Teacher Observation Scores and Student Achievement” (diss. Lindenwood University).

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

Loomis, G. 2012, September 25. “Phantasmagoric Glimpses of Beauty Amid All of the Messiness,” New York Times 2012, p. 0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Hesperia
ISSN (print)	0018-098X
ISSN (online)	1553-5622
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