How to format your references using the Hepatology, Medicine and Policy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hepatology, Medicine and Policy. 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

Buckingham S. Exploring the public domain. Nature. 2004 Apr 15;428(6984):774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin CR, Baker LA. Materials science. Expanding the molecular electronics toolbox. Science. 2005 Jul 1;309(5731):67–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pevzner PA, Kim S, Ng J. Comment on “Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry.” Science. 2008 Aug 22;321(5892):1040; author reply 1040.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gazzani S, Lawrenson T, Woodward C, Headon D, Sablowski R. A link between mRNA turnover and RNA interference in Arabidopsis. Science. 2004 Nov 5;306(5698):1046–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grose M. Construction Law in the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Shukla KK. Lossy Image Compression: Domain Decomposition-Based Algorithms. Prasad MV, editor. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Bui QT, Pham QD, Deville Y. Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program. In: Simonis H, editor. Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 45–54.

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 Hepatology, Medicine and Policy.

Blog post

Andrew E. What Would Europe Look Like If All The Ice On Earth Melted? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-would-united-states-europe-look-if-all-ice-melted/

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. NASA Procurement: Planning for Pilot Test of New Procurement Procedures Is Adequate. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Nov. Report No.: NSIAD-94-67.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Little K. Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2013.

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

Brantley B. That Close-Up, in Fine Focus. New York Times. 2017 Feb 10;C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buckingham 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Buckingham 2004; Martin and Baker 2005).

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

Two authors: (Martin and Baker 2005)
Three or more authors: (Gazzani et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Hepatology, Medicine and Policy
Abbreviation	Hepatol. Med. Policy
ISSN (online)	2059-5166
Scope