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

Basko, D., 2011. Applied physics. A photothermoelectric effect in graphene. Science 334, 610–611.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, J., Marsan, D., 2003. Three-dimensional mapping of dislocation avalanches: clustering and space/time coupling. Science 299, 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kolodner, R.D., Putnam, C.D., Myung, K., 2002. Maintenance of genome stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 297, 552–557.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roch, N., Florens, S., Bouchiat, V., Wernsdorfer, W., Balestro, F., 2008. Quantum phase transition in a single-molecule quantum dot. Nature 453, 633–637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor, R., 2006. Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Soetaert, K., Herman, P.M.J. (Eds.), 2009. A Practical Guide to Ecological Modelling: Using R as a Simulation Platform. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Poizat, P., Royer, J.-C., Salaün, G., 2006. Bounded Analysis and Decomposition for Behavioural Descriptions of Components, in: Gorrieri, R., Wehrheim, H. (Eds.), Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 33–47.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Motor Neurone Disease Success in Animals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/motor-neurone-disease-success-animals/ (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, 2017. Health Information Technology: HHS Should Assess the Effectiveness of Its Efforts to Enhance Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Information (No. GAO-17-305). 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

Lamanna, S.G., 2012. Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Saslow, L., 2008. Offering Fresh Weapons Against Test Anxiety. New York Times LI6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Basko, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Basko, 2011; Weiss and Marsan, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Weiss and Marsan, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Roch et al., 2008)

About the journal

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

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