How to format your references using the The Journal of Headache and Pain citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Headache and Pain. 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

Peng X (2011) China’s demographic history and future challenges. Science 333:581–587

A journal article with 2 authors

Robertson WH, Johnson MA (2002) Chemistry. Caught in the act of dissolution. Science 298:69

A journal article with 3 authors

Seufert V, Ramankutty N, Foley JA (2012) Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture. Nature 485:229–232

A journal article with 5 or more authors

West SA, Murray MG, Machado CA, et al (2001) Testing Hamilton’s rule with competition between relatives. Nature 409:510–513

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens F (2015) How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Schewe K-D, Thalheim B (2011) Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases: 4th International Workshops, SDKB 2010, Bordeaux, France, July 5, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy DN, Baik J, Wilson R, Bulmer M (2006) Two-Dimensional Failure Modeling. In: Pham H (ed) Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics. Springer, London, pp 97–111

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 Journal of Headache and Pain.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot For Coral, And Sooner Than We Expected. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oceans-are-becoming-too-hot-coral-and-sooner-we-expected/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Title I Formula in S. 1513. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grandon J (2015) The Distribution of Apiaceae in Lafayette and St. Martin Parishes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Leland J (2016) Loft Life: Music, Stretching and Leftovers. New York Times MB2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Headache and Pain
Abbreviation	J. Headache Pain
ISSN (print)	1129-2369
ISSN (online)	1129-2377
Scope	General Medicine Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Clinical Neurology