How to format your references using the Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care (BARI). 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

Shalala DE. Retrospective. Bernadine Healy (1944-2011). Science 2011;333(6051):1836.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blander JM, Medzhitov R. Toll-dependent selection of microbial antigens for presentation by dendritic cells. Nature 2006;440(7085):808–812.

A journal article with 3 authors

O’Connor J, Zheng X, Zhou Z. Zheng et al. reply. Nature 2013;499(7457):E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wei BQ, Vajtai R, Jung Y, et al. Microfabrication technology: organized assembly of carbon nanotubes. Nature 2002;416(6880):495–496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinçer İ, Zamfirescu C. Drying Phenomena. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Wilson-Rawls J, Kusumi K, (eds). Innovations in Molecular Mechanisms and Tissue Engineering. Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Albors-Garrigos J, Carrasco JCR. New Learning Paradigms: Open Course Versus Traditional Strategies. The Current Paradox of Learning and Developing Creative Ideas. In: Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. (White B, King I, Tsang P. eds) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011; pp. 53–79.

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 Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Dwarf Galaxies Around The Milky Way Agree With Dark Matter Model. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-galaxies-around-the-milky-way-agree-with-dark-matter-model/ [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. State Department: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Management Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marjanovic SY. The Role of the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein in Regulating T Cell Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms and Implications for Autoimmunity in the Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2016.

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

Billard M. Check In /Check Out; MIAMI BEACH, FLA.: Soho Beach House. New York Times 2010;TR4.

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	Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
ISSN (print)	2168-023X
ISSN (online)	2168-0248
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