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]

Ellis J. Beyond the standard model with the LHC. Nature 2007;448:297–301.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McLennan MR, Hockings KJ. Wild chimpanzees show group differences in selection of agricultural crops. Sci Rep 2014;4:5956.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhou Z, Clarke JA, Zhang F. Archaeoraptor’s better half. Nature 2002;420:285.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hwangbo DS, Gershman B, Gersham B, Tu M-P, Palmer M, Tatar M. Drosophila dFOXO controls lifespan and regulates insulin signalling in brain and fat body. Nature 2004;429:562–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Machin D, Campbell MJ. Design of Studies for Medical Research. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

New TR, editor. Beetle Conservation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wong RHC, Jiao MR, Chau KT. Numerical and Experimental Study on Progressive Failure of Marble. In: Yin X-C, Mora P, Donnellan A, Matsu’ura M, editors. Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2006, p. 1787–801.

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

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Andrew E. Transparent Mice Allow Incredible Anatomical Views. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/transparent-mice-allow-incredible-anatomical-views/ (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. Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Supersedes AIMD-98-110). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zavarella CA. Computer -based instruction and remedial mathematics: A study of student retention at a Florida community college. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

Walsh MW. MetLife Settles Cases On Benefits. New York Times 2012:B1.

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