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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Gastroenterology and 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Draaisma D. The tracks of thought. Nature. 2001 Nov 8;414(6860):153.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Longhi S, Della Valle G. Floquet bound states in the continuum. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2219.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE. Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science. 2013 Jan 25;339(6118):413–6.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Wu Q, Tun HM, Leung FCC, Shah NP. Genomic insights into high exopolysaccharide-producing dairy starter bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275. Sci Rep. 2014 May 15;4:4974.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Lindahl D. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.
An edited book
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Dubois E, Gray P, Nigay L, editors. The Engineering of Mixed Reality Systems. London: Springer; 2010. XIV, 450 p. 170 illus. (Human-Computer Interaction Series).
A chapter in an edited book
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Bogojević S. ‘Europeanisation’ of the Judiciary in Southeast Europe. In: Rodin S, Perišin T, editors. Judicial Application of International Law in Southeast Europe. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 65–79.

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 Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Blog post
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Fang J. How Do Bats Find The Right Carnivorous Plants For Safe Roosting? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-bats-find-right-carnivorous-plants-safe-roosting/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Traffic Safety Data: State Data System Quality Varies and Limited Resources and Coordination Can Inhibit Further Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Apr. Report No.: GAO-10-454.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Nomberg RI. Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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
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Eder S, Silver-Greenberg J, Cowley S. Watchdog Targeted as an Obama-Era Holdover. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;A1.

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 titleJournal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
AbbreviationJ. Gastroenterol. Hepatol.
ISSN (print)0815-9319
ISSN (online)1440-1746
ScopeGastroenterology
Hepatology

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