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

Dickson, B.J.: Development. Wiring the brain with insulin. Science. 300, 440–441 (2003)

A journal article with 2 authors

Turecek, R., Trussell, L.O.: Presynaptic glycine receptors enhance transmitter release at a mammalian central synapse. Nature. 411, 587–590 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao, Y., Tong, C., Jiang, J.: Hedgehog regulates smoothened activity by inducing a conformational switch. Nature. 450, 252–258 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

König, M., Wiedmann, S., Brüne, C., Roth, A., Buhmann, H., Molenkamp, L.W., Qi, X.-L., Zhang, S.-C.: Quantum spin hall insulator state in HgTe quantum wells. Science. 318, 766–770 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dunne, R.A.: A Statistical Approach to Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006)

An edited book

Castells, M.C. ed: Anaphylaxis and Hypersensitivity Reactions. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Medina, N.: Being Church as Latina/o Pentecostals. In: Snyder, S., Ralston, J., and Brazal, A.M. (eds.) Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body. pp. 65–80. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY (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, D.: The Amazon’s Ancient Human History Is Written In Its Trees, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-amazons-ancient-human-history-is-written-in-its-trees/

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: FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsaadi, A.: Smart smoke and fire detection with wireless and global system for mobile technology, (2016)

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

Paulson, M.: ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Is Broadway Bound, (2017)

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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