How to format your references using the Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery. 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. Frommer WB. Biochemistry. CO2mmon sense. Science 2010;327:275–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zufall RA, Rausher MD. Genetic changes associated with floral adaptation restrict future evolutionary potential. Nature 2004;428:847–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Galli SJ, Tsai M, Piliponsky AM. The development of allergic inflammation. Nature 2008;454:445–54.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Egan KM, Lawson JA, Fries S et al. COX-2-derived prostacyclin confers atheroprotection on female mice. Science 2004;306:1954–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Costa PJ. Applied Mathematics for the Analysis of Biomedical Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

1. Friesen N, Henriksson C, Saevi T eds. Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Education: Method and Practice. Rotterdam: SensePublishers, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Perfilieva I. A New Model of a Fuzzy Associative Memory. In: Huynh V-N, Inuiguchi M, Demoeux T (eds.). Integrated Uncertainty in Knowledge Modelling and Decision Making: 4th International Symposium, IUKM 2015, Nha Trang, Vietnam, October 15-17, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, 32–42.

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 Hip Preservation Surgery.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Weekend Warrior Exercise: Is It Good For You? IFLScience 2017.

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. Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Megowan G. A correlation study of emotional intelligence and behavioral style of bio-pharmaceutical industry District Sales Managers. 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. Van Gelder SKC by L. Arts, Briefly; Russia: Happy Birthday, Maya. New York Times. November 17, 2005:E2.

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 Hip Preservation Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Hip Preserv. Surg.
ISSN (online)	2054-8397
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