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

John JL. 2009. The future of saving our past. Nature 459:775–776.

A journal article with 2 authors

Land MF, Osorio D. 2014. Physiology. Extraordinary color vision. Science 343:381–382.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capozza R, Barel I, Urbakh M. 2013. Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Sci Rep 3:1896.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Singh SK, Kagalwala MN, Parker-Thornburg J, Adams H, Majumder S. 2008. REST maintains self-renewal and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. Nature 453:223–227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H. 2012. Applied Building Physics. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Hauser B ed. 2013. Yoga Traveling: Bodily Practice in Transcultural Perspective. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Trindade LA, Wang H, Blackburn W, Rooney N. 2013. An Enhanced Semantic Tree Kernel for Sentiment Polarity Classification. In: Gelbukh A, editor. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 14th International Conference, CICLing 2013, Samos, Greece, March 24-30, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 50–62.

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

Andrew D. 2017. Five Common Myths About The Ageing Brain And Body. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/five-common-myths-about-the-ageing-brain-and-body/

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. 1979. Management Guidelines for Cost Accounting and Cost Control for ADP Systems Design and Development Activities. 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

Moran JA. 2009. Investigating the circumstellar environments of young stars with the PROMPT polarimeter.

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

Billard M. 2010. Saving the World. Smelling Good, Too. New York Times:E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (John, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (John, 2009; Land and Osorio, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Land and Osorio, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Singh et al., 2008)

About the journal

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