How to format your references using the HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 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

Risbey, J., 2015. Earth science: Free and forced climate variations. Nature 517, 562–563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brookmeyer, R., Blades, N., 2002. Prevention of inhalational anthrax in the U.S. outbreak. Science 295, 1861.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reinfelder, J.R., Kraepiel, A.M., Morel, F.M., 2000. Unicellular C4 photosynthesis in a marine diatom. Nature 407, 996–999.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Konopka, G., Bomar, J.M., Winden, K., Coppola, G., Jonsson, Z.O., Gao, F., Peng, S., Preuss, T.M., Wohlschlegel, J.A., Geschwind, D.H., 2009. Human-specific transcriptional regulation of CNS development genes by FOXP2. Nature 462, 213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Juhnke, G.A., Granello, D.H., Granello, P.F., 2010. Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cartier, P., 2016. Freedom in Mathematics. Springer India, New Delhi.

A chapter in an edited book

Carpiano, R.M., 2008. Actual or Potential Neighborhood Resources for Health, in: Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S.V., Kim, D. (Eds.), Social Capital and Health. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 83–93.

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 - Journal of Comparative Human Biology.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Why Is Saturn So Bizarrely Hot? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-sighting-metallic-hydrogen-may-explain-saturns-heat/ (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, 2016. Commercial Space: Industry Developments and FAA Challenges (No. GAO-16-765T). 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

Xiao, S., 2012. Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Brantley, B., 2016. Theater; Song, Dance and the Devil. New York Times AR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Risbey, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Brookmeyer and Blades, 2002; Risbey, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Brookmeyer and Blades, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Konopka et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology
Abbreviation	Homo
ISSN (print)	0018-442X
Scope	Anthropology