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

Nelson, M.R.: Computer science. Building an open Cloud. Science. 324, 1656–1657 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Heuvel, M.G.L., Dekker, C.: Motor proteins at work for nanotechnology. Science. 317, 333–336 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shatzkes, K., Teferedegne, B., Murata, H.: A simple, inexpensive method for preparing cell lysates suitable for downstream reverse transcription quantitative PCR. Sci. Rep. 4, 4659 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alsayed, A.M., Islam, M.F., Zhang, J., Collings, P.J., Yodh, A.G.: Premelting at defects within bulk colloidal crystals. Science. 309, 1207–1210 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heckman, R.: Designing Platform Independent Mobile Apps and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Pardo, L.: Multifunctional Polycrystalline Ferroelectric Materials: Processing and Properties. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Sukhoivanov, I.A., Guryev, I.V.: Band Structure Computation of 2D and 3D Photonic Crystals. In: Guryev, I.V. (ed.) Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling. pp. 67–101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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.: What Human Emotions Do We Really Want Of Artificial Intelligence?

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: National Airspace System: Review of FAA’s Spending for Operations. 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

Leung, R.: The Effect of Mission Assurance on ELV Launch Success Rate: An Analysis of Two Management Systems for Launch Vehicles, (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

Otis, J.: A Mother Struggles Alone to Keep Her Family United, (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