How to format your references using the Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hip Preservation 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	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. Knudsen EI. Instructed learning in the auditory localization pathway of the barn owl. Nature 2002;417:322–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ohlstein B, Spradling A. The adult Drosophila posterior midgut is maintained by pluripotent stem cells. Nature 2006;439:470–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chu L, Xiao K-J, Yu J-Q. Room-temperature enantioselective C-H iodination via kinetic resolution. Science 2014;346:451–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Phillips R, Ursell T, Wiggins P et al. Emerging roles for lipids in shaping membrane-protein function. Nature 2009;459:379–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Fitschen K. Building Reliable Trading Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013.

An edited book

1. Yang L. On-Orbit Operations Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms. Zhu Y, Ren X, Zhang Y (eds.). New York, NY: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ageron P. Logic without Self-Deductibility. In: Beziau J-Y (ed.). Logica Universalis: Towards a General Theory of Logic. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007, 87–93.

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 Hip Preservation Surgery.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Stephen Hawking: Humans Only Have About 1,000 Years Left. IFLScience 2016.

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. Control of the National Science Foundation Peer Review Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bontrager JG. Characterization and Applications for A Polymerized DiaCEST Contrast Agent. 2015.

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. Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. June 15, 2017:C22.

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	Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Hip Preserv. Surg.
ISSN (online)	2054-8397
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