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

Meunier B. 2002. Chemistry. Catalytic degradation of chlorinated phenols. Science 296:270–271.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devoret MH, Schoelkopf RJ. 2013. Superconducting circuits for quantum information: an outlook. Science 339:1169–1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gershman SJ, Horvitz EJ, Tenenbaum JB. 2015. Computational rationality: A converging paradigm for intelligence in brains, minds, and machines. Science 349:273–278.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Alencar AM, Arold SP, Buldyrev SV, Majumdar A, Stamenović D, Stanley HE, Suki B. 2002. Physiology: Dynamic instabilities in the inflating lung. Nature 417:809–811.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mariño PP. 2016. Optimization of Computer Networks - Modeling and Algorithms. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Anai H, Horimoto K, Kutsia T eds. 2007. Algebraic Biology: Second International Conference, AB 2007, Castle of Hagenberg, Austria, July 2-4, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Braack M. 2015. Outflow Conditions for the Navier-Stokes Equations with Skew-Symmetric Formulation of the Convective Term. In: Knobloch P, editor. Boundary and Interior Layers, Computational and Asymptotic Methods - BAIL 2014. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p 35–45.

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

O`Callaghan J. 2016. Sorry Everyone, That Alien Signal Was Probably Just A “Terrestrial Disturbance.” IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/sorry-everyone-that-alien-signal-was-probably-just-a-terrestrial-disturbance/

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. 2014. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies. 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

Alla B. 2017. Wellbore Stability Analysis of Sanish Field using 3-D Finite Element Model: Bakken Case Study.

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

Williams J. 2016. A Comedian’s Embroidered Life. New York Times:C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meunier, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Meunier, 2002; Devoret and Schoelkopf, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Devoret and Schoelkopf, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Alencar et al., 2002)

About the journal

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