How to format your references using the Journal of Tissue Viability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Tissue Viability. 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]

Falk D. Careers in science offer women an unusual bonus: immortality. Nature 2000;407:833.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gomes CP, Selman B. Computer science. Satisfied with physics. Science 2002;297:784–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wang B, Xu S, Wu L. Intensified Arabian Sea tropical storms. Nature 2012;489:E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zeff BW, Kleber B, Fineberg J, Lathrop DP. Singularity dynamics in curvature collapse and jet eruption on a fluid surface. Nature 2000;403:401–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tsai CS. Biomacromolecules. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Xiang N, Sessler GM, editors. Acoustics, Information, and Communication: Memorial Volume in Honor of Manfred R. Schroeder. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van Polen MGT, Moura GCM, Pras A. Finding and Analyzing Evil Cities on the Internet. In: Chrisment I, Couch A, Badonnel R, Waldburger M, editors. Managing the Dynamics of Networks and Services: 5th International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2011, Nancy, France, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 38–48.

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 Tissue Viability.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Patient’s Fart Causes Fire During Surgery. 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. Air Traffic Control: Observations on FAA’s Modernization Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Roache RS. Missouri Public School Teachers’ Perception of Tenure. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 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]

Grynbaum MM. Fox Trades Motto of ‘Fair and Balanced’ for ‘Most Watched, Most Trusted.’ New York Times 2017:B8.

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 Tissue Viability
Abbreviation	J. Tissue Viability
ISSN (print)	0965-206X
Scope	Dermatology Pathology and Forensic Medicine