How to format your references using the Advances in Wound Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Wound Care (WOUND). 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

Habib S. Quantum physics. No mere anarchy. Science 2001;293(5528):221–223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lin JY, Fisher DE. Melanocyte biology and skin pigmentation. Nature 2007;445(7130):843–850.

A journal article with 3 authors

West M, Sánchez JJ, McNutt SR. Periodically triggered seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, after the Sumatra earthquake. Science 2005;308(5725):1144–1146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo CX, Xie J, Wang B, et al. A new class of fluorescent-dots: long luminescent lifetime bio-dots self-assembled from DNA at low temperatures. Sci Rep 2013;3:2957.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2014.

An edited book

Guterch B, Kozák J, (eds). Studies of Historical Earthquakes in Southern Poland: Outer Western Carpathian Earthquake of December 3, 1786, and First Macroseismic Maps in 1858-1901. GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Fu X, Zhao C, Zhang S, et al. Modeling and Simulation of Electricity Markets under Different Environmental Policies. In: System Simulation and Scientific Computing: International Conference, ICSC 2012, Shanghai, China, October 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. (Xiao T, Zhang L, Ma S. eds). Communications in Computer and Information Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012; pp. 34–43.

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 Advances in Wound Care.

Blog post

Andrew E. Common Drugs Can Affect Our Minds And Morals – But Should We Be Worried About It? IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/common-drugs-can-affect-our-minds-and-morals-should-we-be-worried-about-it/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Postsecondary Education: College and University Endowments Have Shown Long-Term Growth, While Size, Restrictions, and Distributions Vary. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sontag M. Emotion and the Labeling Process. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH; 2006.

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

Kishkovsky S. Tatyana M. Velikanova, 70, Soviet Human Rights Activist. New York Times 2002;A31.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Advances in Wound Care
ISSN (print)	2162-1918
ISSN (online)	2162-1934
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