How to format your references using the HOMO citation style

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

Weissleder, R., 2006. Molecular imaging in cancer. Science 312, 1168–1171.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorenz, U.J., Zewail, A.H., 2014. Nanofluidics. Observing liquid flow in nanotubes by 4D electron microscopy. Science 344, 1496–1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Westover, K.D., Bushnell, D.A., Kornberg, R.D., 2004. Structural basis of transcription: separation of RNA from DNA by RNA polymerase II. Science 303, 1014–1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Y.-F., Liu, F., Long, Z.-L., Duan, X.-J., Cui, Q., Yan, J.H., Chen, H.-F., 2014. Steady-state BOLD response modulates low frequency neural oscillations. Sci. Rep. 4, 7376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brandimarte, P., 2014. Handbook in Monte Carlo Simulation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liong, M.-T. (Ed.), 2015. Beneficial Microorganisms in Medical and Health Applications, Microbiology Monographs. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Selvi, S.S.D., Vivek, S.S., Vinayagamurthy, D., Rangan, C.P., 2012. ID Based Signcryption Scheme in Standard Model, in: Takagi, T., Wang, G., Qin, Z., Jiang, S., Yu, Y. (Eds.), Provable Security: 6th International Conference, ProvSec 2012, Chengdu, China, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–52.

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 HOMO.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Read My Lips: Truly Empathic Robots Will Be A Long Time Coming [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Unmanned Aerial Systems: Efforts Made toward Integration into the National Airspace Continue, but Many Actions Still Required (No. GAO-15-254T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burugupalli, R.T., 2017. 2x1 Space-Time MIMO-OFDM Parallel Cancellation Scheme with Viterbi Decoding (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2005. Court to Rule on What Constitutes Employer Retaliation. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Weissleder, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Lorenz and Zewail, 2014; Weissleder, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lorenz and Zewail, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	HOMO
Abbreviation	Homo
ISSN (print)	0018-442X
Scope	Anthropology