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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Hellemans A. Cantilever tales. Science. 2000 Nov 24;290(5496):1529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wan YY, Flavell RA. Regulatory T-cell functions are subverted and converted owing to attenuated Foxp3 expression. Nature. 2007 Feb 15;445(7129):766–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pozzi F, Di Matteo T, Aste T. Spread of risk across financial markets: better to invest in the peripheries. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1665.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kuypers MM, Blokker P, Erbacher J, Kinkel H, Pancost RD, Schouten S, et al. Massive expansion of marine archaea during a mid-Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event. Science. 2001 Jul 6;293(5527):92–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hahn A, Behle B, Lischewski D, Rein W. Produktionstechnische Praxis. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2002.

An edited book

Bowen CR. Modern Piezoelectric Energy-Harvesting Materials. 1st ed. 2016. Topolov VY, Kim HA, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIX, 152 p. 37 illus., 12 illus. in color. (Springer Series in Materials Science; vol. 238).

A chapter in an edited book

Kindler S, Kreienkamp HJ. The Role of the Postsynaptic Density in the Pathology of the Fragile X Syndrome. In: Denman RB, editor. Modeling Fragile X Syndrome. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 61–80. (Richter D, Tiedge H, editors. Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation).

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. Electric Aircraft – The Future Of Aviation Or Just Wishful Thinking? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/electric-aircraft-future-aviation-or-just-wishful-thinking/

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. Aviation Safety: Opportunities Exist for FAA to Refine the Controller Staffing Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: RCED-97-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simsic G. Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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. Mandela’s Prison Letters Are to Be Published. New York Times. 2017 Jun 27;C3.

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