How to format your references using the Arthroplasty Today citation style

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

[1]

Penn RL. Chemistry. Resolving an elusive structure. Science 2007;316:1704–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hazeltine E, Ivry RB. Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks? Science 2002;296:1979–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tarchini B, Duboule D, Kmita M. Regulatory constraints in the evolution of the tetrapod limb anterior-posterior polarity. Nature 2006;443:985–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lambert F, Delmonte B, Petit JR, Bigler M, Kaufmann PR, Hutterli MA, et al. Dust-climate couplings over the past 800,000 years from the EPICA Dome C ice core. Nature 2008;452:616–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stephanie Hammer. Architects of Electronic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Shukla SK, Talpin J-P, editors. Synthesis of Embedded Software: Frameworks and Methodologies for Correctness by Construction. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Mukherjee AB, Bhattacharya P, Sarkar A, Zevenhoven R. Mercury emissions from industrial sources in India and its effects in the environment. In: Mason R, Pirrone N, editors. Mercury Fate and Transport in the Global Atmosphere: Emissions, Measurements and Models, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 81–112.

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 Arthroplasty Today.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Which European City Takes The Most Drugs, According To Sewage Wastewater Analysis? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/which-european-city-takes-the-most-drugs-according-to-sewage-wastewater-analysis/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Office of Federal Student Aid: Better Strategic and Human Capital Planning Would Help Sustain Management Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Adijanto J. Metabolic acid transport in human retinal pigment epithelium. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Kelly DA. Take Me to Starbucks if You Can’t Amuse Me. New York Times 2007:H10.

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	Arthroplasty Today
Abbreviation	Arthroplast. Today
ISSN (print)	2352-3441
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