How to format your references using the Hippocampus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hippocampus. 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	Download the output style file
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

Porter SM. 2007. Seawater chemistry and early carbonate biomineralization. Science 316:1302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cooper KM, Kent AJR. 2014. Rapid remobilization of magmatic crystals kept in cold storage. Nature 506:480–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cremer S, Sledge MF, Heinze J. 2002. Chemical mimicry: male ants disguised by the queen’s bouquet. Nature 419:897.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Dias-Ferreira E, Sousa JC, Melo I, Morgado P, Mesquita AR, Cerqueira JJ, Costa RM, Sousa N. 2009. Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making. Science 325:621–625.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Box GEP, Luceño A, Paniagua-Quiñones MDC. 2009. Statistical Control by Monitoring and Adjustment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Perlovsky LI, Kozma R eds. 2007. Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Basu D, Lin Q, Chen W, Vo HT, Yuan Z, Senellart P, Bressan S. 2016. Regularized Cost-Model Oblivious Database Tuning with Reinforcement Learning. In: Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, Chen Q, editors. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXVIII: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 96–132.

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 Hippocampus.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014. Robot Makes You Feel Like There’s a Ghost Behind You. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/spine-chilling-robot-makes-you-feel-theres-ghost-behind-you/

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. 1998. Cuban Embargo: Selected Issues Relating to Travel, Exports, and Telecommunications. Washington, DC: 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

Etchberger JF. 2008. The cis-regulatory logic of gustatory neuron development in Caenorhabditis elegans.

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

Yablonsky L. 2009. Exhibit A-List. New York Times:M226.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Porter, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Porter, 2007; Cooper and Kent, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cooper and Kent, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dias-Ferreira et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hippocampus
Abbreviation	Hippocampus
ISSN (print)	1050-9631
ISSN (online)	1098-1063
Scope	Cognitive Neuroscience