How to format your references using the Hormone Research in Paediatrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Hormone Research in Paediatrics. 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

Mather JC. HISTORY OF SCIENCE: Science and Sputnik. Science. 2007 Oct;318(5847):52–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falk A, Heckman JJ. Lab experiments are a major source of knowledge in the social sciences. Science. 2009 Oct;326(5952):535–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tanner C, Manca C, Leutwyler S. Probing the threshold to H atom transfer along a hydrogen-bonded ammonia wire. Science. 2003 Dec;302(5651):1736–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bernhardt TG, Wang IN, Struck DK, Young R. A protein antibiotic in the phage Qbeta virion: diversity in lysis targets. Science. 2001 Jun;292(5525):2326–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Focardi SM, Fabozzi FJ, Bali TG. Mathematical Methods for Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Frohlich ED, Re RN, editors. The Local Cardiac Renin-Angiotensin Aldosterone System. Second Edition. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Bulgakova NM, Zhukov VP. Continuum Models of Ultrashort Laser–Matter Interaction in Application to Wide-Bandgap Dielectrics. In: Castillejo M, Ossi PM, Zhigilei L, editors. Lasers in Materials Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014; pp 101–24.

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 Hormone Research in Paediatrics.

Blog post

Luntz S. Study Reveals How Birth Order Influences Personality [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Jul [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/birth-order-influences-personality-not-much/

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. Highway Contracts: Federal-Aid Highway Contracts Awarded to Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams K. The lexicographic treatment of color terms. 2014

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

Kelly M. Clinton Campaign Avoided Workers’ Taxes. New York Times. 1993 Apr;127.

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	Hormone Research in Paediatrics
Abbreviation	Horm. Res. Paediatr.
ISSN (print)	1663-2818
ISSN (online)	1663-2826
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health