How to format your references using the Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences. 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. Keitt TH. Coherent ecological dynamics induced by large-scale disturbance. Nature. 2008;454:331–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Davidson EH, Erwin DH. Gene regulatory networks and the evolution of animal body plans. Science. 2006;311:796–800.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pyenson ND, Irmis RB, Lipps JH. Comment on “Climate, critters, and cetaceans: Cenozoic drivers of the evolution of modern whales.” Science. 2010;330:178; author reply 178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tian B, Reser D, Durham A, Kustov A, Rauschecker JP. Functional specialization in rhesus monkey auditory cortex. Science. 2001;292:290–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Gaffikin F, Morrissey M. Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Berry MW, Mohamed A, Yap BW, editors. Soft Computing in Data Science: First International Conference, SCDS 2015, Putrajaya, Malaysia, September 2-3, 2015, Proceedings. Singapore: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bowen JP. A Relational Approach to an Algebraic Community: From Paul Erdős to He Jifeng. In: Liu Z, Woodcock J, Zhu H, editors. Theories of Programming and Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Jifeng He on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 54–66.

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 Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Dolphins and Belugas Squeal With Delight. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Science Indicators: Improvements Needed in Design, Construction, and Interpretation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Sep. Report No.: PAD-79-35.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Usborne EL. Sediment and phosphorus dynamics behind weirs in agricultural drainage ditches [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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. Vecsey G. Refreshing Series Provides Hope. New York Times. 2010 Oct 29;B17.

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	Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Sciences
ISSN (print)	1868-6974
ISSN (online)	1868-6982
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