How to format your references using the HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology. 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

Grayson, M., 2011. Biofuels. Nature 474, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Culjkovic-Kraljacic, B., Borden, K.L.B., 2010. Cell biology. Puzzled by PML. Science 330, 1183–1184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christian, W., Esquembre, F., Barbato, L., 2011. SPORE series winner. Open source physics. Science 334, 1077–1078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lacorre, P., Goutenoire, F., Bohnke, O., Retoux, R., Laligant, Y., 2000. Designing fast oxide-ion conductors based on La2Mo2O9. Nature 404, 856–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanna, V.K., 2005. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor IGBT Theory and Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Krogstie, J., Mouratidis, H., Su, J. (Eds.), 2016. Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2016 International Workshops, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 13-17, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

FitzGerald, D., Paulus, J., 2006. Unpitched Percussion Transcription, in: Klapuri, A., Davy, M. (Eds.), Signal Processing Methods for Music Transcription. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 131–162.

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 HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Elon Musk’s High-Speed Hyperloop Train Makes More Sense For Mars Than California [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-s-high-speed-hyperloop-train-makes-more-sense-mars-california/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1998. Core Competencies in Financial Management for Information Technology Personnel Implementing Financial Systems in the Federal Government (No. JFMIP-ET-98-2). 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

McAvoy, D.L., 2012. Coming of age with Shakespeare: The convergence of American youth culture and high culture since the 1980s (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Vecsey, G., 2013. A Roof Is Planned, but It’s a Waiting Game for Fans and Players. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grayson, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Culjkovic-Kraljacic and Borden, 2010; Grayson, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Culjkovic-Kraljacic and Borden, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Lacorre et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology
Abbreviation	Homo
ISSN (print)	0018-442X
Scope	Anthropology