How to format your references using the Injury citation style

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

[1]

Gravitz L. Prevention: Tending the gut. Nature 2015;521:S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Williams BRG, Sen GC. Immunology. A viral on/off switch for interferon. Science 2003;300:1100–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bazzini AA, Lee MT, Giraldez AJ. Ribosome profiling shows that miR-430 reduces translation before causing mRNA decay in zebrafish. Science 2012;336:233–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li XP, Björkman O, Shih C, Grossman AR, Rosenquist M, Jansson S, et al. A pigment-binding protein essential for regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting. Nature 2000;403:391–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samuel GR. Formulas and Calculations for Drilling Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Stillman GA, Kaiser G, Blum W, Brown JP, editors. Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abadi M. Logic in Access Control (Tutorial Notes). In: Aldini A, Barthe G, Gorrieri R, editors. Foundations of Security Analysis and Design V: FOSAD 2007/2008/2009 Tutorial Lectures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 145–65.

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 Injury.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Former BP Lawyer Will Be The Justice Department’s Top Environmental Attorney. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/former-bp-lawyer-justice-departments-top-environmental-attorney/ (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. Managers Need To Provide Better Protection for Federal Automatic Data Processing Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kao CH. Community mental health care for Chinese Americans: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Kelly C. Three Win Grant to Start Online Paper. New York Times 2007:WE5.

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	Injury
Abbreviation	Injury
ISSN (print)	0020-1383
Scope	Emergency Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine