How to format your references using the Hormone Research in Paediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 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

Emlen DJ. Costs and the diversification of exaggerated animal structures. Science. 2001 Feb;291(5508):1534–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brédas J-L, Silbey R. Chemistry. Excitons surf along conjugated polymer chains. Science. 2009 Jan;323(5912):348–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

von Melchner L, Pallas SL, Sur M. Visual behaviour mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature. 2000 Apr;404(6780):871–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Möller P, Madland DG, Sierk AJ, Iwamoto A. Nuclear fission modes and fragment mass asymmetries in a five-dimensional deformation space. Nature. 2001 Feb;409(6822):785–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May V, Kühn O. Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2007.

An edited book

Kurzyński M, Puchała E, Woźniak M, żołnierek A, editors. Computer Recognition Systems: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems CORES ’05. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Thakor NV. Neuroprosthetics: Past, Present and Future. In: Jensen W, Andersen OK, Akay M, editors. Replace, Repair, Restore, Relieve – Bridging Clinical and Engineering Solutions in Neurorehabilitation: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2014), Aalborg, 24-26 June, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 15–21.

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 Hormone Research in Paediatrics.

Blog post

Hale T. Watch Two Guys Fly Their JETPACKS Alongside A Plane [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov

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. Transportation Security: Transportation Worker Identification Credential: A Status Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Jackson ME. Where are the parents: The parent’s perspective of parental involvement in education. 2010

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

Eligon J. For Some in Charlottesville, Statue Dispute Distracts From City’s Deep Racial Split. New York Times. 2017 Aug;A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Hormone Research in Paediatrics
Abbreviation	Horm. Res. Paediatr.
ISSN (print)	1663-2818
ISSN (online)	1663-2826
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health