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

Wolthers M. 2015. MINERAL CHEMISTRY. How minerals dissolve. Science 349:1288.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ichinose G, Sayama H. 2014. Evolution of fairness in the not quite ultimatum game. Sci Rep 4:5104.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chandra P, Coleman P, Flint R. 2013. Hastatic order in the heavy-fermion compound URu2Si2. Nature 493:621–626.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Dehlinger G, Diehl L, Gennser U, Sigg H, Faist J, Ensslin K, Grutzmacher D, Muller E. 2000. Intersubband electroluminescence from silicon-based quantum cascade structures. Science 290:2277–2280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barrett-Lennard GT. 2014. The Relationship Inventory. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Lesourne J. 2006. Evolutionary Microeconomics. (Orléan A, Walliser B, editors.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Benenson Z. 2005. Authenticated Queries in Sensor Networks. In: Molva R, Tsudik G, Westhoff D, editors. Security and Privacy in Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks: Second European Workshop, ESAS 2005, Visegrad, Hungary, July 13-14, 2005. Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 54–67.

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

Davis J. 2015. Why Does Day Care Protect Children Against Leukemia? IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-day-care-protect-children-against-leukemia/

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. 2013. Aviation: Status of DOT’s Actions to Address the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee’s Recommendations. 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

Grizzel RE. 2010. Three choral works by Dr. James Mobberley—the analysis rehearsal, and performance of “Poem to Ease Birth”, “Lullaby”, and “Spring: O Sparrow.”

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. 2017. Actor Set to Have Key Role In Man’s Drug Murder Trial. New York Times:A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wolthers, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ichinose and Sayama, 2014; Wolthers, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ichinose and Sayama, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Dehlinger et al., 2000)

About the journal

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