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. (2004). Thinking big. Nature, 428(6985), 873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Huard, B., & Karlsson, L. (2000). KIR expression on self-reactive CD8+ T cells is controlled by T-cell receptor engagement. Nature, 403(6767), 325–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Deitsch, K. W., Calderwood, M. S., & Wellems, T. E. (2001). Malaria. Cooperative silencing elements in var genes. Nature, 412(6850), 875–876.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Montoya, J. P., Holl, C. M., Zehr, J. P., Hansen, A., Villareal, T. A., & Capone, D. G. (2004). High rates of N2 fixation by unicellular diazotrophs in the oligotrophic Pacific Ocean. Nature, 430(7003), 1027–1032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Walkenbach, J. (2010). John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel® 2010 Tips & Tricks. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Le Dret, H. (2016). Partial Differential Equations: Modeling, Analysis and Numerical Approximation. (B. Lucquin, Ed.) (1st ed. 2016., Vol. 168). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cesca, S., Grigoli, F., Şen, A. T., Maghsoudi, S., Dahm, T., & Meier, T. (2014). The MINE Project: Monitoring Induced Seismicity in a German Coal Mine. In M. Weber & U. Münch (Eds.), Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 21 (pp. 63–81). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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, June 12). Breath Test Being Developed To Detect Lung Cancer. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/breath-test-being-developed-detect-lung-cancer/. 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). Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Internal Control Weaknesses Need to Be Corrected to Help Achieve Security Objectives (No. GAO-11-648T). 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

Ganatra, V. A. (2012). Impact of the media on body image and eating disorders (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rashbaum, W. K., & Schwirtz, M. (2017, April 28). Amid Rikers Chaos, Jails Chief Often Left Town. New York Times, p. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Huard and Karlsson 2000; Smaglik 2004).

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

Two authors: (Huard and Karlsson 2000)
Three or more authors: (Montoya et al. 2004)

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