How to format your references using the Neohelicon citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Neohelicon. 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

Smaglik, P. (2002). Career prospects in Europe. Nature, 419(6906), 3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Prospero, J. M., & Lamb, P. J. (2003). African droughts and dust transport to the Caribbean: climate change implications. Science (New York, N.Y.), 302(5647), 1024–1027.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanjeem, N., Kawazoe, T., & Yatsui, T. (2013). CO2 phonon mode renormalization using phonon-assisted energy up-conversion. Scientific reports, 3, 3341.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Coull, J. A. M., Boudreau, D., Bachand, K., Prescott, S. A., Nault, F., Sík, A., et al. (2003). Trans-synaptic shift in anion gradient in spinal lamina I neurons as a mechanism of neuropathic pain. Nature, 424(6951), 938–942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown, M. A., & Kaplan, L. (2012). The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ignatov, D. I., Khachay, M. Y., Panchenko, A., Konstantinova, N., & Yavorsky, R. E. (Eds.). (2014). Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts: Third International Conference, AIST 2014, Yekaterinburg, Russia, April 10-12, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 436). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Humar, A., Khwaja, K. O., & Sutherland, D. E. R. (2006). Pancreas Transplantation. In A. J. Matas & W. D. Payne (Eds.), Atlas of Organ Transplantation (pp. 133–195). London: Springer.

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 Neohelicon.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, November 6). Cheaper, More Compact Particle Accelerators Are A Step Closer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/cheaper-more-compact-particle-accelerators-are-step-closer/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (2011). Key Controls NASA Employs to Guide Use and Management of Funded Space Act Agreements Are Generally Sufficient, but Some Could Be Strengthened and Clarified (No. GAO-12-230R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hrivnak, G. A. (2009). Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, July 25). Judge Rejects Plan to Alter City Pensions in Chicago. New York Times, p. A11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Prospero and Lamb 2003; Smaglik 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Prospero and Lamb 2003)
Three or more authors: (Coull et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neohelicon
Abbreviation	Neohelicon
ISSN (print)	0324-4652
ISSN (online)	1588-2810
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law