How to format your references using the Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint 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

Jaffe H. Public health. Whatever happened to the U.S. AIDS epidemic? Science. 2004;305(5688):1243-1244.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirey SB, Richardson SH. Start of the Wilson cycle at 3 Ga shown by diamonds from subcontinental mantle. Science. 2011;333(6041):434-436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Babbush R, Love PJ, Aspuru-Guzik A. Adiabatic quantum simulation of quantum chemistry. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6603.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Omatsu-Kanbe M, Nishino Y, Nozuchi N, Sugihara H, Matsuura H. Prion protein- and cardiac troponin T-marked interstitial cells from the adult myocardium spontaneously develop into beating cardiomyocytes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pan Y, Wang J, Li M. Algorithmic and Artificial Intelligence Methods for Protein Bioinformatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Lai CG, Wilmański K, eds. Surface Waves in Geomechanics: Direct and Inverse Modelling for Soils and Rocks. Vol 481. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Kletter D, Bern M, Haab B. Mining and Using Glycan Array Data with the GlycoSearch Analysis Program and GlycanBinder Database. In: Taniguchi N, Endo T, Hart GW, Seeberger PH, Wong CH, eds. Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine. Springer Japan; 2015:61-68.

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 Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery.

Blog post

Andrew E. Watch Bill Nye Read Out Some Of The Hilarious Mean Tweets Sent To Him. IFLScience. August 1, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/watch-bill-nye-read-out-some-hilarious-mean-tweets-sent-him/

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. Army Aviation and Troop Command. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fink DC. An Exposure Assessment of Paper Dust in a Coupon Manufacturing Facility. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2017.

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

Vecsey G. A 96-Team Tournament? Now That’s Madness. New York Times. March 7, 2010:SP6.

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	Journal of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Arthrosc. Jt. Surg.
ISSN (print)	2214-9635
Scope