How to format your references using the Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal. 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]

Ellerbroek B. Astronomical instrumentation: Atmospheric blurring has a new enemy. Nature 2014;512:144–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maechler P, Wollheim CB. Mitochondrial function in normal and diabetic beta-cells. Nature 2001;414:807–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MA. Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature 2000;405:567–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huh W-K, Falvo JV, Gerke LC, Carroll AS, Howson RW, Weissman JS, et al. Global analysis of protein localization in budding yeast. Nature 2003;425:686–91.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kar P. Doping in Conjugated Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Gairing M, Savani R, editors. Algorithmic Game Theory: 9th International Symposium, SAGT 2016, Liverpool, UK, September 19–21, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9928. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stein A, Georgiadis N. Spatial Statistics to Quantify Patterns of Herd Dispersion in a Savanna Herbivore Community. In: Prins HHT, Langevelde FV, editors. Resource Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Foraging, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008, p. 33–51.

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 Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Mysterious Object Spotted On Saturn’s Moon. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-captures-mystery-feature-evolving-titans-sea/ (accessed October 30, 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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2008 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nersessian N. Modified gravity with scale invariance and implications. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Feeney K. I’m a Lumber Jack (Omelet, That Is). New York Times 2007:NJ6.

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	Hong Kong Physiotherapy Journal
Abbreviation	Hong Kong Physiother. J.
ISSN (print)	1013-7025
Scope	Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation