How to format your references using the HPB citation style

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

Strober W (2006). Immunology. Unraveling Gut Inflammation. Science 313: 1052–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratcliffe JM, Nydam ML (2008). Multimodal Warning Signals for a Multiple Predator World. Nature 455: 96–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Csankovszki G, McDonel P, Meyer BJ (2004). Recruitment and Spreading of the C. Elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303: 1182–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pelletier L, O’Toole E, Schwager A, Hyman AA, Müller-Reichert T (2006). Centriole Assembly in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Nature 444: 619–23.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer I, Barsnes H, Eide GE, Martens L (2013). Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Linkov I, Ferguson E, Magar VS, editors (2008). Real-Time and Deliberative Decision Making: Application to Emerging Stressors. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Beauville A (2007). Sur Les Hypersurfaces Dont Les Sections Hyperplanes Sont à Module Constant. In: Cartier P, Illusie L, Katz NM, Laumon G, Manin YI, Ribet KA, editors. The Grothendieck Festschrift: A Collection of Articles Written in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Alexander Grothendieck, Progress in Mathematics, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, p. 121–33.

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 HPB.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015). How Long Would It Take To Fall Through The Center Of The Earth?. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/faster-journey-center-earth/ [Accessed October 30, 2018].

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 (1996). Follow-Up on Contracting Issues at Denver International Airport. 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

Schulz JL (2015). Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius Melodus) in Coastal Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Wagner J (2016). Mets Find Trip to Series Has Cost in Pitching Staff. New York Times: B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	HPB
ISSN (print)	1365-182X
ISSN (online)	1477-2574
Scope