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

Contreras JL. Information access. Prepublication data release, latency, and genome commons. Science. 2010 Jul 23;329(5990):393–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Harms MJ, Thornton JW. Historical contingency and its biophysical basis in glucocorticoid receptor evolution. Nature. 2014 Aug 14;512(7513):203–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pool JA, Lobkovsky E, Chirik PJ. Hydrogenation and cleavage of dinitrogen to ammonia with a zirconium complex. Nature. 2004 Feb 5;427(6974):527–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vo N, Horii T, Yanai H, Yoshida H, Yamaguchi M. The Hippo pathway as a target of the Drosophila DRE/DREF transcriptional regulatory pathway. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 26;4:7196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abran A. Software Project Estimation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Zhu Q, Gould J, Li Y, Ma C, editors. Rainwater Harvesting for Agriculture and Water Supply. Singapore: Springer; 2015. XI, 378 p. 184 illus., 111 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahlswede R. Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems. In: Ahlswede A, Althöfer I, Deppe C, Tamm U, editors. Hiding Data - Selected Topics: Rudolf Ahlswede’s Lectures on Information Theory 3. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 225–336. (Foundations in Signal Processing, Communications and Networking).

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. Ebola Outbreak: Where We Are Now And What Happens Next [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ebola-outbreak-where-we-are-now-and-what-happens-next/

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. FCC: Maritime Communications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: OGC-98-66.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Visweswaran K. Face Recognition Technique for Blurred/Unclear Images [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Paulson M. Hello? Dolly? Bette Midler Might Not Sing at Tonys. New York Times. 2017 May 29;C1.

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