How to format your references using the Journal of Hepatology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hepatology. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Frank L. Biotechnology in the Medicon Valley. Nature 2002;420:A27, A29, A31 passim.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Restuccia DF, Hemmings BA. Cell signaling. Blocking Akt-ivity. Science 2009;325:1083–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kasting JF, Catling DC, Zahnle K. Atmospheric oxygenation and volcanism. Nature 2012;487:E1; discussion E2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Khakh BS, Zhou X, Sydes J, Galligan JJ, Lester HA. State-dependent cross-inhibition between transmitter-gated cation channels. Nature 2000;406:405–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Waupsh J. Bankruption. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Harrison DJ, Fuller AK, Proulx G, editors. Martens and Fishers (Martes) in Human-Altered Environments: An International Perspective. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wohed P, van der Aalst WMP, Dumas M, ter Hofstede AHM, Russell N. Pattern-Based Analysis of the Control-Flow Perspective of UML Activity Diagrams. In: Delcambre L, Kop C, Mayr HC, Mylopoulos J, Pastor O, editors. Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005: 24th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, Klagenfurt, Austria, October 24-28, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 63–78.

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 Journal of Hepatology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Oxygen-Producing Organisms Appeared 60 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Believed. IFLScience 2014.

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. Business Modernization: Some Progress Made toward Implementing GAO Recommendations Related to NASA’s Integrated Financial Management Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Perez V. Overrepresentation of American Indian youth in foster care: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Vecsey G. A Summer With Uncle Casey In the Town He Owned. New York Times 2011:SP2.

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	Journal of Hepatology
Abbreviation	J. Hepatol.
ISSN (print)	0168-8278
Scope	Hepatology