How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Dehant V. Planetary science. A liquid core for Mars? Science. 2003;300(5617):260-261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang SC, Hu J. A four-dimensional generalization of the quantum Hall effect. Science. 2001;294(5543):823-828.

A journal article with 3 authors

Visel A, Rubin EM, Pennacchio LA. Genomic views of distant-acting enhancers. Nature. 2009;461(7261):199-205.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kusch T, Florens L, Macdonald WH, et al. Acetylation by Tip60 is required for selective histone variant exchange at DNA lesions. Science. 2004;306(5704):2084-2087.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cabaniss DL, Cherry S, Douglas CJ, Schwartz A. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

Sonza Reorda M, Peng Z, Violante M, eds. System-Level Test and Validation of Hardware/Software Systems. Vol 17. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Bissell C. A History of Automatic Control. In: Nof SY, ed. Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer; 2009:53-69.

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 Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Find Sharks Have Personalities. IFLScience.

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. Safe and Drug-Free Schools: Balancing Accountability With State and Local Flexibility. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fay JE. California Employer Perspectives on Older Working Adults Specific to the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Mandate. Doctoral dissertation. 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. Dwindling Funds Jeopardize Immigrant Center. New York Times. May 6, 2007:LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Exp. Hepatol.
ISSN (print)	0973-6883
Scope