How to format your references using the Hyperfine Interactions citation style

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

Osterholm, M.T.: A weapon the world needs. Nature. 435, 417–418 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Bae, B.-I., Walsh, C.A.: Neuroscience. What are mini-brains? Science. 342, 200–201 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Leman, L., Orgel, L., Ghadiri, M.R.: Carbonyl sulfide-mediated prebiotic formation of peptides. Science. 306, 283–286 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rusconi, C.P., Scardino, E., Layzer, J., Pitoc, G.A., Ortel, T.L., Monroe, D., Sullenger, B.A.: RNA aptamers as reversible antagonists of coagulation factor IXa. Nature. 419, 90–94 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wolf, E.L., Medikonda, M.: Understanding the Nanotechnology Revolution. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2012)

An edited book

Bodlaender, H.L., Downey, R., Fomin, F.V., Marx, D. eds: The Multivariate Algorithmic Revolution and Beyond: Essays Dedicated to Michael R. Fellows on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Most, M.J., Sim, F.H.: Limb Salvage in Skeletally Immature Patients with Extremity Sarcoma. In: San-Julian, M. (ed.) Cañadell’s Pediatric Bone Sarcomas: Epiphysiolysis before Excision. pp. 75–101. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Hyperfine Interactions.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Fossilized Plants Describe Evolution of Prehistoric Ecosystems, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fossilized-plants-describe-evolution-prehistoric-ecosystems/

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: The Federal Weather Program Must Have Stronger Central Direction. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grant, L.: How Does a Principal Use Intention and Strategy in the Enactment of Advocacy Leadership?, (2013)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Ruling Sets Up Pension Battle in Bankrupt City, (2013)

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	Hyperfine Interactions
Abbreviation	Hyperfine Interact.
ISSN (print)	0304-3843
ISSN (online)	1572-9540
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Nuclear and High Energy Physics Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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