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

DePinho, R.A. (2000) ‘The age of cancer’, Nature 408, 248–54

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, M.C. and Green, C. (2001) ‘Suppressing unwanted memories by executive control’, Nature 410, 366–69

A journal article with 3 authors

Kwak, K., Cho, K. and Kim, S. (2013) ‘Stable bending performance of flexible organic light-emitting diodes using IZO anodes’, Sci. Rep. 3, 2787

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Martinez, P., McGranahan, N., Birkbak, N.J., Gerlinger, M. and Swanton, C. (2013) ‘Computational optimisation of targeted DNA sequencing for cancer detection’, Sci. Rep. 3, 3309

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, L. (2015) Knowledge and Discourse Matters (Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Bandt, C., Falconer, K. and Zähle, M. (eds) (2015) Fractal Geometry and Stochastics V 70 (Progress in Probability ) (Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Lu, W. and Liu, Y. (2011) ‘Research of Event-Driven Enterprise Application Integration Base on Service Oriented Architecture’, in D. Zeng (ed.), Applied Informatics and Communication: International Conference, ICAIC 2011,Xi’an, China, August 20-21, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science ) (Berlin, Heidelberg) 33–37

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

Andrew, E. (2015) ‘Secret Chambers Found In Tutankhamun’s Tomb’ [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 (1971) Automatic Data Processing Policies, Procedures, and Practices at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Black, D.D. (2014) ‘Franz Liszt’s “Via Crucis”: A summation of the composer’s styles and beliefs’, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Pilon, M. (2013) ‘Dog’s Death After Westminster Has Handler Suspecting It Wasn’t an Accident’, New York Times B12

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