How to format your references using the HPV citation style

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

Travers A. Structural biology. The 30-nm fiber redux. Science. 2014 Apr 25;344(6182):370–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gui C, Wang J. Silicon-organic hybrid slot waveguide based three-input multicasted optical hexadecimal addition/subtraction. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 15;4:7491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson A, Mavoori J, Fetz EE. Long-term motor cortex plasticity induced by an electronic neural implant. Nature. 2006 Nov 2;444(7115):56–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rasoloniaina A, Huet V, Nguyên TKN, Le Cren E, Mortier M, Michely L, et al. Controling the coupling properties of active ultrahigh-Q WGM microcavities from undercoupling to selective amplification. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 7;4:4023.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iosifescu M, Limnios N, Oprişan G. Introduction to Stochastic Models. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2010.

An edited book

Depla D, Mahieu S, editors. Reactive Sputter Deposition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. (Springer Series in Materials Science; vol. 109).

A chapter in an edited book

Ebihara Y, Peaucelle D, Arzelier D. Multiobjective Controller Synthesis for LTI Systems. In: Peaucelle D, Arzelier D, editors. S-Variable Approach to LMI-Based Robust Control. London: Springer; 2015. p. 139–64. (Communications and Control Engineering).

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 HPV.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Possible Cure Found For Rare “Stone Man” Disease That Turns Muscle To Bone [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-cure-found-rare-stone-man-disease-turns-muscle-bone/

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. Air Fares and Service at Concentrated Airports. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Jun. Report No.: T-RCED-89-37.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall KE. Transformational leadership practices of African-American ministers at predominantly African American Churches of Christ in Nashville, TN [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

Andrews M. Venus Williams Investigated in Fatal Crash. New York Times. 2017 Jun 29;B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Travers 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gui and Wang 2014; Travers 2014).

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

Two authors: (Gui and Wang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rasoloniaina et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	HPV
ISSN (print)	2352-1716
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