How to format your references using the Homeopathy citation style

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

Leonhardt U. Optical conformal mapping. Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1777–80.

A journal article with 2 authors

King MC, Motulsky AG. Human genetics. Mapping human history. Science. 2002 Dec 20;298(5602):2342–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhuang J, Yu GR, Nakayama K. A series RCL circuit theory for analyzing non-steady-state water uptake of maize plants. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 22;4:6720.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Krasnow MM, Delton AW, Tooby J, Cosmides L. Meeting now suggests we will meet again: implications for debates on the evolution of cooperation. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews C. Engineers’ Data Book. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Luo Y, editor. Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering: 7th International Conference, CDVE 2010, Calvia, Mallorca, Spain, September 19-22, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XII, 302 p. 125 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6240).

A chapter in an edited book

Sourtzinos P, Makris D, Remagnino P. Highly Accurate Estimation of Pedestrian Speed Profiles from Video Sequences. In: Remagnino P, Monekosso DN, Jain LC, editors. Innovations in Defence Support Systems – 3: Intelligent Paradigms in Security. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 71–81. (Kacprzyk J, editor. Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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 Homeopathy.

Blog post

Andrew E. Brain Cells Governing Overeating And Sugar Addiction Identified [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-cells-governing-overeating-and-sugar-addiction-identified/

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. Information on Organization and Functions of the Indian Education Resources Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Feb. Report No.: CED-78-57.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huang YF. The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2013.

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Staff Sees Campaign As a Real War. New York Times. 1992 Aug 11;A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Homeopathy
Abbreviation	Homeopathy
ISSN (print)	1475-4916
ISSN (online)	1476-4245
Scope	Complementary and alternative medicine