How to format your references using the Current Hepatitis Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Hepatitis Reports. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Dalton R. Anger as Princeton closes “inspirational” museum. Nature. 2000;407:825.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kang B, Ceder G. Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging. Nature. 2009;458:190–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee E, Pandey NB, Popel AS. Lymphatic endothelial cells support tumor growth in breast cancer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5853.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hulot FD, Lacroix G, Lescher-Moutoué F, Loreau M. Functional diversity governs ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment. Nature. 2000;405:340–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Smith CL. Distillation Control. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Ibarrola M de, Anderson LW, editors. The Nurturing of New Educational Researchers: Dialogues and Debates. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tronco TR, Tome T, Rothenberg CE, Ongarelli MA, Rego ACB. Scenarios of Evolution for a Future Internet Architecture. In: Tronco T, editor. New Network Architectures: The Path to the Future Internet. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 57–77.

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 Current Hepatitis Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Fly Above Mount Etna With This Stunning Drone Footage [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fly-above-mount-etna-with-this-stunning-drone-footage/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Drug and Alcohol Abuse: Billions Spent Annually for Treatment and Prevention Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Oct. Report No.: HEHS-97-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nakano Y. Characterization of copper, zinc-superoxide dismutase aggregates: Role of disulfide bonds and pathway for aggregation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

1. Fausset R, Blinder A, Eligon J. Blacks Beg to Differ With Trump’s Depiction. New York Times. 2016 Aug 24;A12.

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	Current Hepatitis Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Hepat. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1540-3416
ISSN (online)	1541-0706
Scope	Virology Hepatology