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

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

[1]

Lawler A. SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION: NASA Blasted for Rising Costs, Cancellations. Science 2000;290:1666a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wang MH, vom Saal FS. Maternal age and traits in offspring. Nature 2000;407:469–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Marston JO, Riker PW, Thoroddsen ST. Generation of ultra-sound during tape peeling. Sci Rep 2014;4:4326.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bradshaw GA, Schore AN, Brown JL, Poole JH, Moss CJ. Elephant breakdown. Nature 2005;433:807.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Boxer H. Profitable Day and Swing Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Demazeau Y, Dignum F, Corchado JM, Pérez JB, editors. Advances in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems (PAAMS 2010). vol. 70. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Syed KT. Unveiling Marginalization. In: Syed KT, editor. Through White Noise: Autonarrative Exploration of Racism, Discrimination, and the Doorways to Academic Citizenship in Canada, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012, p. 51–74.

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 Hepatology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Will Superfast ‘Quantum’ Computers Mean The End Of Unbreakable Encryption? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/will-superfast-quantum-computers-mean-the-end-of-unbreakable-encryption/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Administration of Payroll Matters for Civilian Employees, Marine Corps Development and Education Command. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Peterson GG. Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2013.

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]

McKINLEY JC Jr. Actor Set to Have Key Role In Man’s Drug Murder Trial. New York Times 2017:A22.

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 Hepatology
Abbreviation	J. Hepatol.
ISSN (print)	0168-8278
Scope	Hepatology