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

Atran, S., 2003. Genesis of suicide terrorism. Science 299, 1534–1539.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ravi, M., Chan, S.W.L., 2010. Haploid plants produced by centromere-mediated genome elimination. Nature 464, 615–618.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu, D.-A., Kanai, R., Shimojo, S., 2004. Vision: steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. Nature 429, 262.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tyagi, A., Kapoor, P., Kumar, R., Chaudhary, K., Gautam, A., Raghava, G.P.S., 2013. In silico models for designing and discovering novel anticancer peptides. Sci. Rep. 3, 2984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pascoe, N., 2011. Reliability Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Blischke, W.R., 2011. Warranty Data Collection and Analysis, Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Roos, V., 2016. Implementing the Mmogo-method: A Group of Setswana-Speaking Older People’s Relational Experiences in a Rural Community Setting, in: Roos, V. (Ed.), Understanding Relational and Group Experiences through the Mmogo-Method®, Policy Report. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 55–88.

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

Hamilton, K., 2017. Psychologist Reveals The 9 Most Common Dreams And What They Mean [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, 2015. Aviation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps to Improve Oversight of Key Programs, but Additional Actions Are Needed (No. GAO-15-678T). 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

Dang, H., 2010. The cummulative incidence estimate versus the Kaplan Meier method in medical research (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

Kelly, M., 1992. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; The Matter of Trust: Clinton’s Big Burden. New York Times 124.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atran, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Atran, 2003; Ravi and Chan, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ravi and Chan, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tyagi et al., 2013)

About the journal

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