How to format your references using the HGG Advances citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2003). It could be worse. Nature 425, 745.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeston, J., and Coontz, R. (2009). Industrial chemistry. Chemistry writ large. Introduction. Science 325, 691.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwynne, D.T., Judge, K.A., and Kelly, C.D. (2010). Evidence for male allocation in pipefish? Nature 466, E11; discussion E12.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Decker, R.B., Krimigis, S.M., Roelof, E.C., Hill, M.E., Armstrong, T.P., Gloeckler, G., Hamilton, D.C., and Lanzerotti, L.J. (2008). Mediation of the solar wind termination shock by non-thermal ions. Nature 454, 67–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Freeman, R.L. (2005). Telecommunication System Engineering (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Papadopoulou, D. ed. (2006). Cross-linguistic Variation in Sentence Processing: Evidence from RC Attachment Preferences in Greek (Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Tavella, R., and Eslick, G.D. (2013). Epidemiology of Cardiac Syndrome X and Microvascular Angina. In Chest Pain with Normal Coronary Arteries: A Multidisciplinary Approach, J. C. Kaski, G. D. Eslick, and C. N. Bairey Merz, eds. (Springer), pp. 37–47.

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 HGG Advances.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015). Elon Musk Wants To Launch 4,000 Satellites That Will Provide Internet From Space. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/elon-musk-plans-launching-4000-internet-satellites/.

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 (2016). Federal Research: Information on DOE’s Laboratory-Directed Research and Development Program (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Policarpio, A.M. (2014). Interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, typically developing siblings, and parents: A systematic review of the literature.

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

Walsh, M.W. (2016). Struggling Puerto Rico Defaults on Its Debt Payments. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	HGG Advances
ISSN (online)	2666-2477
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