How to format your references using the Fisterra citation style

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

Cooper AI. Materials chemistry: cooperative carbon capture. Nature. 2015 Mar 19;519(7543):294–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Walsh EC, Stainier DY. UDP-glucose dehydrogenase required for cardiac valve formation in zebrafish. Science. 2001 Aug 31;293(5535):1670–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rai A, Menon AV, Jalan S. Randomness and preserved patterns in cancer network. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 15;4:6368.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Butts DA, Weng C, Jin J, Yeh CI, Lesica NA, Alonso JM, et al. Temporal precision in the neural code and the timescales of natural vision. Nature. 2007 Sep 6;449(7158):92–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mysak J. Encyclopedia of Municipal Bonds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Campbell T, Miller S, editors. Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005. (Issues in Business Ethics; vol. 20).

A chapter in an edited book

Reith W. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: Vogl TJ, Reith W, Rummeny EJ, editors. Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 31–8.

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 Fisterra.

Blog post

Fang J. Giant Tortoises Bounce Back! [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/giant-tortoises-have-bounced-back-galapagos-isle/

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. Aviation Safety: Comparison of Specific Responses in FAA Controller Questionnaire. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 May. Report No.: RCED-89-162FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aguilar M. Latina single mothers: Perspectives on parenting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Brantley B. Bewildered Rage Over Lives Cut Short. New York Times. 2017 Jun 11;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cooper 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Walsh and Stainier 2001; Cooper 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Walsh and Stainier 2001)
Three or more authors: (Butts et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fisterra
ISSN (print)	2444-9164
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