How to format your references using the Neohelicon citation style

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

Dorn, G. W., 2nd. (2010). Medicine. Refugee receptors switch sides. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5973), 1586–1587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Akeda, Y., & Galán, J. E. (2005). Chaperone release and unfolding of substrates in type III secretion. Nature, 437(7060), 911–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsieh, C.-S., Kovářík, J., & Logan, T. (2014). How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex? Scientific reports, 4, 7540.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Esch, H. E., Zhang, S., Srinivasan, M. V., & Tautz, J. (2001). Honeybee dances communicate distances measured by optic flow. Nature, 411(6837), 581–583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGrath, A. E. (2011). Luther’s Theology of the Cross. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Suhonen, J. (2012). Low-Power Wireless Sensor Networks: Protocols, Services and Applications. (M. Kohvakka, V. Kaseva, T. D. Hämäläinen, & M. Hännikäinen, Eds.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Tesoro, S., & Marchesini, L. (2016). Perioperative Care in Day Hospital Surgery. In M. Astuto & P. M. Ingelmo (Eds.), Perioperative Medicine in Pediatric Anesthesia (pp. 55–74). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Neohelicon.

Blog post

Taub, B. (2016, August 31). What Is Kratom And Why Has The DEA Decided It’s As Dangerous As Heroin? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-kratom-why-has-dea-decided-its-dangerous-heroin/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. (1998). F-22 Aircraft: Progress of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development Program (No. T-NSIAD-98-137). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Almasaari, A. H. (2017). Arab American women’s identity crises in Mohja Kahf’s “The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf” and Laila Halaby’s “West of the Jordan” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G. (2016, April 5). Recognizing the Artifice in Artificial Intelligence. New York Times, p. D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dorn 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Akeda and Galán 2005; Dorn 2010).

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

Two authors: (Akeda and Galán 2005)
Three or more authors: (Esch et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Neohelicon
Abbreviation	Neohelicon
ISSN (print)	0324-4652
ISSN (online)	1588-2810
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Law