How to format your references using the The Hastings Center Report citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Hastings Center Report (HCR). 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

Huybers, P. “Early Pleistocene Glacial Cycles and the Integrated Summer Insolation Forcing.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 313, no. 5786 (2006): 508–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, S., and N. D. Spencer. “Materials Science. Sweet, Hairy, Soft, and Slippery.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 319, no. 5863 (2008): 575–76.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nagornova, N. S., T. R. Rizzo, and O. V. Boyarkin. “Interplay of Intra- and Intermolecular H-Bonding in a Progressively Solvated Macrocyclic Peptide.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6079 (2012): 320–23.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hime, T., P. A. Reichardt, B. L. T. Plourde, T. L. Robertson, C.-E. Wu, A. V. Ustinov, and J. Clarke. “Solid-State Qubits with Current-Controlled Coupling.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 314, no. 5804 (2006): 1427–29.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossi, R. J. Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

Cebeci, T. Computational Fluid Dynamics for Engineers: From Panel to Navier-Stokes Methods with Computer Programs. Edited by J. P. Shao, F. Kafyeke, and E. Laurendeau. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Stefanescu, A., D. Ioan, and G. Ciuprina. “Parametric Models of Transmission Lines Based on First Order Sensitivities.” In Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering SCEE 2008, ed. J. Roos and L. R. J. Costa, 29–36. Mathematics in Industry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

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 The Hastings Center Report.

Blog post

Andrew, D. “How Does The Order In Which You’re Born Affect Your Personality?” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-does-order-youre-born-affect-your-personality/.

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. “Highway Safety: Safety Belt Use Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 15, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kamph, M. “Examining Commodity, Agency, and Value: Prehistoric French Replicas, Casts, and ‘Frauds’ within the National Museum of Natural History’s Collection.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, F. Akhtar, Sophia Chang on, J. Koblin, Nate Schweber in, A. Lazo, and A. S. in Connecticut. “That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth.” New York Times, 2006.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Hastings Center Report
Abbreviation	Hastings Cent. Rep.
ISSN (print)	0093-0334
ISSN (online)	1552-146X
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