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

Rose KD. Evolution. The ancestry of whales. Science. 2001 Sep 21;293(5538):2216–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anglada-Escudé G, Tuomi M. Exoplanet detection. Comment on “Stellar activity masquerading as planets in the habitable zone of the M dwarf Gliese 581.” Science. 2015 Mar 6;347(6226):1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baum DA, Smith SD, Donovan SSS. Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge. Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):979–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Han Y, Shokef Y, Alsayed AM, Yunker P, Lubensky TC, Yodh AG. Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers. Nature. 2008 Dec 18;456(7224):898–903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hellesland J, Challamel N, Casandjian C, Lanos C. Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Schuh C. The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World. Strohmer MF, Easton S, Scharlach A, Scharbert P, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Beh AL, Fleet GH, Prakitchaiwattana C, Heard GM. Evaluation of molecular methods for the analysis of yeasts in foods and beverages. In: Hocking AD, Pitt JI, Samson RA, Thrane U, editors. Advances in Food Mycology. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2006. p. 69–106. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology).

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

Andrew E. Men May Have Learned To Navigate In Order To Find More Mates. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Information Management: The National Technical Information Service’s Dissemination of Technical Reports Needs Attention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jul. Report No.: GAO-14-781T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mylonas A. “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Saslow L. Megyn Kelly and Douglas Brunt. New York Times. 2008 Mar 16;ST13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rose 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Rose 2001; Anglada-Escudé and Tuomi 2015).

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

Two authors: (Anglada-Escudé and Tuomi 2015)
Three or more authors: (Han et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	HPV
ISSN (print)	2352-1716
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