How to format your references using the Triple Helix citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Triple Helix. 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

Meyer-Lindenberg A (2010) From maps to mechanisms through neuroimaging of schizophrenia. Nature 468:194–202

A journal article with 2 authors

Archer D, Martin P (2001) Ocean circulation. Thin walls tell the tale. Science 294:2108–2109

A journal article with 3 authors

Nguyen TD, Ehrenfreund E, Vardeny ZV (2012) Spin-polarized light-emitting diode based on an organic bipolar spin valve. Science 337:204–209

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Savina MR, Davis AM, Tripa CE, et al (2004) Extinct technetium in silicon carbide stardust grains: implications for stellar nucleosynthesis. Science 303:649–652

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu S-C, Delbruck T, Indiveri G, et al (2015) Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Krueger GRF, Buja LM (eds) (2013) Atlas of Anatomic Pathology with Imaging: A Correlative Diagnostic Companion. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Autili M, Di Ruscio D, Di Salle A, et al (2013) A Model-Based Synthesis Process for Choreography Realizability Enforcement. In: Cortellessa V, Varró D (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 16th International Conference, FASE 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–52

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 Triple Helix.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Craziest Sex Lives of the Animal Kingdom. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/craziest-sex-lives-animal-kingdom/. 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 (1989) Information Management: Issues Important to Farmers Home Administration Systems Modernization. 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

Vallaster JR (2019) Recognizing and Supporting the Forgotten Poverty Frontier: Exploring Suburban School Poverty in Elementary Schools. 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

Crow K (2003) An Old Friend Returns, Herbs and Fruit In Hand. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Meyer-Lindenberg 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Archer and Martin 2001; Meyer-Lindenberg 2010).

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

Two authors: (Archer and Martin 2001)
Three or more authors: (Savina et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Triple Helix
Abbreviation	Triple Helix (Heidelb.)
ISSN (online)	2197-1927
Scope