How to format your references using the The Journal of Hellenic Studies citation style

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

Service, R.F. (2000) ‘BODY CHEMISTRY: Forensic Science on a Shoestring’, Science 289, 857

A journal article with 2 authors

Mukherjee, S. and Orth, K. (2008) ‘Microbiology. A protein pupylation paradigm’, Science 322, 1062–63

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanaka, Y., Okada, Y. and Hirokawa, N. (2005) ‘FGF-induced vesicular release of Sonic hedgehog and retinoic acid in leftward nodal flow is critical for left-right determination’, Nature 435, 172–77

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Conway, H., Catania, G., Raymond, C.F., Gades, A.M., Scambos, T.A. and Engelhardt, H. (2002) ‘Switch of flow direction in an Antarctic ice stream’, Nature 419, 465–67

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, P.W. (2010) Top Hat (Oxford, UK)

An edited book

Chiumello, D. (ed.) (2016) Topical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care (Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Elen, A. et al. (2016) ‘Validation of an Improved Patient-Specific Mold Design for Registration of In-vivo MRI and Histology of the Prostate’, in R. Shekhar et al. (eds), Clinical Image-Based Procedures. Translational Research in Medical Imaging: 5th International Workshop, CLIP 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ) (Cham) 36–43

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 Hellenic Studies.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016) ‘Google Shows How Earth Has Changed In The Last 33 Years’ [Online]

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 (1988) Paul G. Dembling (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zivkovic, O. (2010) ‘Ternary nanomaterials: Synthesis by alkalide reduction and characterization’, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Wagner, J. (2017) ‘Who’s at Second, And Now Third? It’s the Catcher’, New York Times B7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Abbreviation	J. Hell. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0075-4269
ISSN (online)	2041-4099
Scope	Language and Linguistics Archaeology Classics Literature and Literary Theory Visual Arts and Performing Arts Linguistics and Language