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:

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

Draaisma D. The tracks of thought. Nature. 2001 Nov 8;414(6860):153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Longhi S, Della Valle G. Floquet bound states in the continuum. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2219.

A journal article with 3 authors

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

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

Lindahl D. Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

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

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

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

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

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

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 title	Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Abbreviation	J. Gastroenterol. Hepatol.
ISSN (print)	0815-9319
ISSN (online)	1440-1746
Scope	Gastroenterology Hepatology

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