How to format your references using the HPV citation style

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

Myhrvold NP. Comment on “Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs.” Science. 2015 May 29;348(6238):982.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmerr N, Garnero EJ. Upper mantle discontinuity topography from thermal and chemical heterogeneity. Science. 2007 Oct 26;318(5850):623–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schön JH, Kloc C, Batlogg B. High-temperature superconductivity in lattice-expanded C60. Science. 2001 Sep 28;293(5539):2432–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sondermann H, Scheufler C, Schneider C, Hohfeld J, Hartl FU, Moarefi I. Structure of a Bag/Hsc70 complex: convergent functional evolution of Hsp70 nucleotide exchange factors. Science. 2001 Feb 23;291(5508):1553–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown C. Mastering Elliott Wave Principle. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Xu L, Bertino E, Mu Y, editors. Network and System Security: 6th International Conference, NSS 2012, Wuyishan, Fujian, China, November 21-23, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7645).

A chapter in an edited book

Morales JM, Conejo AJ, Madsen H, Pinson P, Zugno M. Managing Uncertainty with Flexibility. In: Conejo AJ, Madsen H, Pinson P, Zugno M, editors. Integrating Renewables in Electricity Markets: Operational Problems. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 137–71. (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science).

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 HPV.

Blog post

Evans K. Most Vitamins Are Useless, But There’s One You Could Probably Use [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-vitamins-are-useless-but-theres-one-you-could-probably-use/

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. Telecommunications: Current Broadband Measures Have Limitations and New Measures Are Promising but Need Improvement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Oct. Report No.: GAO-10-49.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gallegos CM. Shelter services for homeless older adults: A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Montague J. Caution: Team Under Construction. New York Times. 2017 Oct 9;D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Myhrvold 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Schmerr and Garnero 2007; Myhrvold 2015).

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

Two authors: (Schmerr and Garnero 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sondermann et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	HPV
ISSN (print)	2352-1716
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