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

Cobb, M., 2001. Wondrous order. Nature 413, 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, J., DeBerardinis, R.J., 2013. Cancer. Silencing a metabolic oncogene. Science 340, 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Halpern, B.S., Cottenie, K., Broitman, B.R., 2006. Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystems. Science 312, 1230–1232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sutton, M.A., Wall, N.R., Aakalu, G.N., Schuman, E.M., 2004. Regulation of dendritic protein synthesis by miniature synaptic events. Science 304, 1979–1983.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nikrityuk, P.A., 2011. Computational Thermo-Fluid Dynamics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Curry, G.L., 2009. Manufacturing Systems Modeling and Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bokalič, M., Topič, M., 2015. SPICE Model and Simulations, in: Topič, M. (Ed.), Spatially Resolved Characterization in Thin-Film Photovoltaics, SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–51.

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., 2014. Graphene Could Lead To Better Bullet-Proof Vests And Hydrogen Fuel Cells [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, 1995. Aviation Safety: FAA Can Be More Proactive in Promoting Aviation Safety (No. T-RCED-95-81). 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

Zhao, X., 2006. Exfoliation Corrosion Kinetics of High Strength Aluminum Alloys (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Where’s the Art? at a Hamptons Center, Look Behind the Wall. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cobb, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cobb, 2001; Kim and DeBerardinis, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kim and DeBerardinis, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sutton et al., 2004)

About the journal

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