How to format your references using the Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. 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

Young OR. Governance: A peaceful Arctic. Nature. 2011;478(7368):180-181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neumann GA, Mazarico E. Planetary science. Seeing the missing half. Science. 2009;323(5916):885-887.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tewksbury JJ, Huey RB, Deutsch CA. Ecology. Putting the heat on tropical animals. Science. 2008;320(5881):1296-1297.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Novoselov KS, Geim AK, Dubonos SV, Hill EW, Grigorieva IV. Subatomic movements of a domain wall in the Peierls potential. Nature. 2003;426(6968):812-816.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Holloway M, Nwaoha C. Dictionary of Industrial Terms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Jendek E. Host Plants of World Agrilus (Coleoptera, Buprestidae): A Critical Review. (Poláková J, ed.). Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen W, Fu ZJ, Chen CS. Boundary-Type RBF Collocation Methods. In: Fu ZJ, Chen CS, eds. Recent Advances in Radial Basis Function Collocation Methods. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer; 2014:51-87.

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 Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.

Blog post

Davis J. Even Elephants In Remote Rainforests Are Being Slaughtered. IFLScience. February 21, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/even-elephants-in-remote-rainforests-are-being-slaughtered/

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. Status of Special National Direct Student Loan Funds. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Buckley MK. A Study of At-Risk Students’ Perceptions of an Online Academic Credit Recovery Program in an Urban North Texas Independent School District. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Pilon M. The One And Only: The Footprints On a Path to Gold. New York Times. April 21, 2012:SP1.

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	Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
Abbreviation	Arthroscopy
ISSN (print)	0749-8063
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine