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. Cole AA. ASTRONOMY: The Distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud. Science. 2000;289:1149–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chiarugi A, Moskowitz MA. Cell biology. PARP-1--a perpetrator of apoptotic cell death? Science. 2002;297:200–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Klein Y, Efrati E, Sharon E. Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics. Science. 2007;315:1116–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Watson DA, Su M, Teverovskiy G, Zhang Y, García-Fortanet J, Kinzel T, et al. Formation of ArF from LPdAr(F): catalytic conversion of aryl triflates to aryl fluorides. Science. 2009;325:1661–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ma AD, Roberts HR, Escobar MA. Hemophilia and Hemostasis. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Kokinov B, Richardson DC, Roth-Berghofer TR, Vieu L, editors. Modeling and Using Context: 6th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2007, Roskilde, Denmark, August 20-24, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Grobman S, Cerra A. No Second Chance. In: Cerra A, editor. The Second Economy: The Race for Trust, Treasure and Time in the Cybersecurity War. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2016. p. 59–75.

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. Andrew E. Bigger Is Better After All. 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. Competitive Financing Mechanisms: Auctions Used by Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: HEHS-99-57R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Keels D. An Analysis of the Correlation between Teacher Effectiveness and Student Standardized Test Scores [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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. Ahmed A, Semple K. Hurricane Gains Force And Targets Caribbean. New York Times. 2017 Sep 18;A8.

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
Scope

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