How to format your references using the JHEP Reports citation style

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

[1]

Cowan J. Astronomy: a constant surprise. Nature 2007;448:29.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shapiro L, Losick R. Retrospective. Francois Jacob (1920-2013). Science 2013;340:939.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zwaan MA, van Dokkum PG, Verheijen MA. Hydrogen 21-centimeter emission from a galaxy at cosmological distance. Science 2001;293:1800–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dumont S, Cheng W, Serebrov V, Beran RK, Tinoco I Jr, Pyle AM, et al. RNA translocation and unwinding mechanism of HCV NS3 helicase and its coordination by ATP. Nature 2006;439:105–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Inness P, Dorling S. Operational Weather Forecasting. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Kita R, Dobashi T, editors. Nano/Micro Science and Technology in Biorheology: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kemp MC, Binh T-N. On Trade Gains and International Disparities in Factor Proportions. In: Kamihigashi T, Zhao L, editors. International Trade and Economic Dynamics: Essays in Memory of Koji Shimomura, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 13–8.

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 JHEP Reports.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Does Kissing Really Create A Greater Risk Of Developing Mouth Cancer Than Smoking? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/does-kissing-really-create-greater-risk-developing-mouth-cancer-smoking/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Important Progress Made, But Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zanjani F. Leadership and decision making of successful Iranian American. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 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

[1]

Oestreich JR. Finding Beauty Amid the Grit. New York Times 2016:C3.

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	JHEP Reports
ISSN (print)	2589-5559
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