How to format your references using the Journal of Homotopy and Related Structures citation style

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

Dennell, R.: Archaeology. An earlier Acheulian arrival in South Asia. Science. 331, 1532–1533 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickware, P., Smaglik, P.: Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft. Nature. 409, 961–963 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Krishnan, M., Ugaz, V.M., Burns, M.A.: PCR in a Rayleigh-Bénard convection cell. Science. 298, 793 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rouach, N., Koulakoff, A., Abudara, V., Willecke, K., Giaume, C.: Astroglial metabolic networks sustain hippocampal synaptic transmission. Science. 322, 1551–1555 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Patterson, S.J., Radtke, J.M.: Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Mohammad, A., Inamuddin eds: Green Solvents II: Properties and Applications of Ionic Liquids. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Close, J.-P., de Groot, E., Cluitmans, P.: Event-Linked Communication. In: Close, J.-P. (ed.) AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition. pp. 97–113. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Homotopy and Related Structures.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: It’s The Year 2020…How’s Your Cybersecurity?, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/it-s-year-2020-how-s-your-cybersecurity/

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

Government Accountability Office: Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Compliance Status Information on Biomedical Equipment. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jaffer, S.: Harnessing innovation in the 21st century: the impact of leadership styles, (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

Rothenberg, B.: Dominant So Far on Clay, Nadal Hits A Bump on the Road to Roland Garros, (2017)

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 Homotopy and Related Structures
Abbreviation	J. Homotopy Relat. Struct.
ISSN (print)	2193-8407
ISSN (online)	1512-2891
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Geometry and Topology