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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Chisari, F. V. (2005). Unscrambling hepatitis C virus-host interactions. Nature, 436(7053), 930–932.
A journal article with 2 authors
Yuspa, S. H., & Epstein, E. H., Jr. (2005). Cancer. An anchor for tumor cell invasion. Science (New York, N.Y.), 307(5716), 1727–1728.
A journal article with 3 authors
Kogan, A., Amasha, S., & Kastner, M. A. (2004). Photon-induced Kondo satellites in a single-electron transistor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5675), 1293–1295.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Gordon, M. D., Dionne, M. S., Schneider, D. S., & Nusse, R. (2005). WntD is a feedback inhibitor of Dorsal/NF-kappaB in Drosophila development and immunity. Nature, 437(7059), 746–749.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Haupt, R. L. (2015). Timed Arrays. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Ackermann, P. W., & Hart, D. A. (Eds.). (2016). Metabolic Influences on Risk for Tendon Disorders (Vol. 920). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
A chapter in an edited book
Chiesa, A., Fossati, F., Gambacciani, G., & Pensavalle, E. (2015). Enabling Technologies for Active Space Debris Removal: The Cadet Project. In T. Sgobba & I. Rongier (Eds.), Space Safety is No Accident: The 7th IAASS Conference (pp. 29–38). 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
O`Callaghan, J. (2015, September 18). This Is How SpaceX Plans To Land On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-spacex-plans-land-mars/. 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. (2014). Recovery Act: USDA Should Include Broadband Program’s Impact in Annual Performance Reports (No. GAO-14-511). 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
Johnson, L. (2010). A cross-cultural examination of the needs and behaviors of female caregivers of cancer patients at the end of life: A theoretical elaboration (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
Kelly, M. (1993, April 6). Arkansas Rookie Makes Debut. New York Times, p. B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chisari 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Chisari 2005; Yuspa and Epstein 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Yuspa and Epstein 2005)
  • Three or more authors: (Gordon et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal titleNeohelicon
AbbreviationNeohelicon
ISSN (print)0324-4652
ISSN (online)1588-2810
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Law

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