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

Pinheiro, M.J., 2013. A variational method in out-of-equilibrium physical systems. Sci. Rep. 3, 3454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, Y., Imlay, J.A., 2013. Cell death from antibiotics without the involvement of reactive oxygen species. Science 339, 1210–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, A., Kurdistani, S.K., Grunstein, M., 2002. Requirement of Hos2 histone deacetylase for gene activity in yeast. Science 298, 1412–1414.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Möller, P., Madland, D.G., Sierk, A.J., Iwamoto, A., 2001. Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space. Nature 409, 785–790.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maguire, L., Smith, E., 2012. 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Qi, H., Zhao, B. (Eds.), 2013. Cleaner Combustion and Sustainable World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mantecón, T., del-Blanco, C.R., Jaureguizar, F., García, N., 2016. Hand Gesture Recognition Using Infrared Imagery Provided by Leap Motion Controller, in: Blanc-Talon, J., Distante, C., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. (Eds.), Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 17th International Conference, ACIVS 2016, Lecce, Italy, October 24-27, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–57.

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

Andrew, D., 2016. The Human Brain Has A “Super” Capacity To Recognise Faces — And Neuroscientists, Psychologists, And Police Are Just Starting To Figure Out Why [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/the-human-brain-has-a-super-capacity-to-recognise-faces-and-neuroscientists-psychologists-and-police-are-just-starting-to-figure-out-why/ (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, 1976. Rotation Policies and Practices Have Been Changed for the Better--But Room for Improvement Remains (No. FPCD-76-45). 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

Olanisa, E.L., 2012. Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California (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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. A Network vs. the President. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pinheiro, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Liu and Imlay, 2013; Pinheiro, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Liu and Imlay, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Möller et al., 2001)

About the journal

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