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

Nieto, M. A. (2013). Epithelial plasticity: a common theme in embryonic and cancer cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 342(6159), 1234850.

A journal article with 2 authors

Irion, U., & St Johnston, D. (2007). bicoid RNA localization requires specific binding of an endosomal sorting complex. Nature, 445(7127), 554–558.

A journal article with 3 authors

Simmons, S. L., Bazylinski, D. A., & Edwards, K. J. (2006). South-seeking magnetotactic bacteria in the Northern Hemisphere. Science (New York, N.Y.), 311(5759), 371–374.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Allen, M. R., Frame, D. J., Huntingford, C., Jones, C. D., Lowe, J. A., Meinshausen, M., & Meinshausen, N. (2009). Warming caused by cumulative carbon emissions towards the trillionth tonne. Nature, 458(7242), 1163–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid, R., Fraser-King, G., & Schwaderer, W. D. (2006). Data Lifecycles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Poveda, R. L. (2016). Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced Polymer Composites. (N. Gupta, Ed.) (1st ed. 2016.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wijesundara, M. B. J., & Azevedo, R. G. (2011). Packaging. In R. Azevedo (Ed.), Silicon Carbide Microsystems for Harsh Environments (pp. 167–188). New York, NY: 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

Evans, K. (2017, April 6). Depicting Film Baddies With Skin Conditions Is Damaging To Real Sufferers, Say Dermatologists. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/depicting-film-baddies-with-skin-conditions-is-damaging-to-real-sufferers-say-dermatologists/. 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. (1998). District of Columbia: Extent to Which Schools Receive Available Federal Education Grants (No. T-HEHS-98-239). 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

Hertzman, R. (2013). Yemen’s migrant networks as critical factor in political opposition to the Imamate (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Billard, M. (2010, July 22). From India, Bridal Baubles. New York Times, p. E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nieto 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Irion and St Johnston 2007; Nieto 2013).

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

Two authors: (Irion and St Johnston 2007)
Three or more authors: (Allen et al. 2009)

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

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