How to format your references using the Calcified Tissue International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Calcified Tissue International. 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	Download the output style file
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

Macilwain C (2000) Critics blast US missile defence system as flawed. Nature 404:799

A journal article with 2 authors

Vanderschuren LJMJ, Everitt BJ (2004) Drug seeking becomes compulsive after prolonged cocaine self-administration. Science 305:1017–1019

A journal article with 3 authors

Komatitsch D, Ritsema J, Tromp J (2002) The spectral-element method, Beowulf computing, and global seismology. Science 298:1737–1742

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Klausmeier CA, Litchman E, Daufresne T, Levin SA (2004) Optimal nitrogen-to-phosphorus stoichiometry of phytoplankton. Nature 429:171–174

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cowan JP (2016) The Effects of Sound on People. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Huang X, Chen Y-S, Ao S-I (2008) Advances in Communication Systems and Electrical Engineering. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Maggi F, Bendinelli M (2009) Immunobiology of the Torque Teno Viruses and Other Anelloviruses. In: Villiers E-M de, Hausen HZ (eds) TT Viruses: The Still Elusive Human Pathogens. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 65–90

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 Calcified Tissue International.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) Al Gore Tells IFLScience, When It Comes To Climate Change, “We Will Win.” In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1972) Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beeler MC (2010) Disordered Ultracold Two-Dimensional Bose Gases. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kelly C (2007) Shelter’s Legal Arm Observes Anniversary. New York Times 14WC2

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	Calcified Tissue International
Abbreviation	Calcif. Tissue Int.
ISSN (print)	0171-967X
ISSN (online)	1432-0827
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Orthopedics and Sports Medicine