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

Lozier, M.S., 2010. Deconstructing the conveyor belt. Science 328, 1507–1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, P., Johnson, D., 2012. Biodiversity: Think big for marine conservation. Nature 483, 399.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T.L., Schall, J.D., 2000. Performance monitoring by the supplementary eye field. Nature 408, 857–860.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lolle, S.J., Victor, J.L., Young, J.M., Pruitt, R.E., 2005. Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis. Nature 434, 505–509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Razik, H., 2013. Handbook of Asynchronous Machine with Variable Speed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Zong, C., Nie, J.-Y., Zhao, D., Feng, Y. (Eds.), 2014. Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing: Third CCF Conference, NLPCC 2014, Shenzhen, China, December 5-9, 2014. Proceedings, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

van den Hoven, M., 2011. Commentary: The Struggle Against AIDS and the Pharmaceuticals Industry – Are There Limits to the Moral Obligation to Do Good?, in: Dubbink, W., Liedekerke, L. van, Luijk, H. van (Eds.), European Business Ethics Cases in Context: The Morality of Corporate Decision Making, Issues in Business Ethics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 47–53.

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. Reindeer Are Still Very Radioactive 30 Years After Chernobyl [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/reindeer-are-still-very-radioactive-30-years-after-chernobyl/ (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, 1984. GAO Evaluation of Report by Technassociates, Inc., on the Evaluation of Written Products Delivered by the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (No. HRD-84-79). 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

Chun, A.R., 2017. Physiological, Ultrastructure, and Preliminary Genomic Characterization of the Marine Protist Thraustochytrium sp. LLF1b (class Labyrinthulomycetes) (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Baker, P., Vogel, K.P., 2017. Lawyers Clash Over Strategy By West Wing. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lozier, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Lozier, 2010; Weaver and Johnson, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Weaver and Johnson, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lolle et al., 2005)

About the journal

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