How to format your references using the HGG Advances citation style

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

Kaiser, J. (2005). American Society of Gene Therapy meeting. Retroviral vectors: a double-edged sword. Science 308, 1735–1736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yoshida, N., and Kanda, J. (2012). Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima radionuclides. Science 336, 1115–1116.

A journal article with 3 authors

Warner, D.A., Uller, T., and Shine, R. (2013). Transgenerational sex determination: the embryonic environment experienced by a male affects offspring sex ratio. Sci. Rep. 3, 2709.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Kemiktarak, U., Ndukum, T., Schwab, K.C., and Ekinci, K.L. (2007). Radio-frequency scanning tunnelling microscopy. Nature 450, 85–88.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Myers, F.R. (2009). Get the Job You Want, Even When No One’s Hiring (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Aiking, H., Boer, J. de, and Vereijken, J. eds. (2006). Sustainable Protein Production and Consumption: Pigs or Peas? (Springer Netherlands).

A chapter in an edited book

Kolaczyk, E.D., and Csárdi, G. (2014). Mathematical Models for Network Graphs. In Statistical Analysis of Network Data with R Use R!, G. Csárdi, ed. (Springer), pp. 69–83.

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 HGG Advances.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014). Vast Diversity Found in Genetics of Mexico. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/vast-diversity-found-genetics-mexico/.

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 (1984). Automatic Data Processing: A Career Challenge (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gibb, A. (2012). Implementing U.S. security strategy in the 21st century: A three-part examination of the evolving role of the military in American foreign and security policy.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. (2016). 105 Years Ago. New York Times, C25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	HGG Advances
ISSN (online)	2666-2477
Scope