How to format your references using the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research. 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

1. Dobson JE. Big Brother has evolved. Nature. 2009;458:968.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Menon S, Manning BD. Cell signalling: nutrient sensing lost in cancer. Nature. 2013;498:444–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Klöckner H-R, Baan WA, Garrett MA. Investigation of the obscuring circumnuclear torus in the active galaxy Mrk231. Nature. 2003;421:821–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Markovitsi D, Talbot F, Gustavsson T, Onidas D, Lazzarotto E, Marguet S. Molecular spectroscopy: complexity of excited-state dynamics in DNA. Nature. 2006;441:E7; discussion E8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Irene EA. Electronic Materials Science. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Dan MB, Přikryl R, Török Á, editors. Materials, Technologies and Practice in Historic Heritage Structures. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Liu F-J. Theoretical Foundation for Spirituality-Oriented Holistic Art Education: Integration of Eastern and Western Aesthetics. In: Leong S, Leung BW, editors. Creative Arts in Education and Culture: Perspectives from Greater China. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 55–67.

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 Orthopaedic Surgery and Research.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. NASA Has Seen “Spiders” Forming On Mars For The First Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-sees-spiders-forming-on-mars-for-the-first-time/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Rail Transportation: Federal Railroad Administration’s New Approach to Railroad Safety. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jul. Report No.: RCED-97-142.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ratliff DJ. Teen parenting curriculum: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Chapman MM, Saulny S. A Tragedy in Detroit, With a Reality TV Crew in Tow. New York Times. 2010 May 22;A8.

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 Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
Abbreviation	J. Orthop. Surg. Res.
ISSN (online)	1749-799X
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery