How to format your references using the Ortho Magazine citation style

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

Doebley J. Plant science. Unfallen grains: how ancient farmers turned weeds into crops. Science 2006;312:1318–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Paterson I, Anderson EA. Chemistry. The renaissance of natural products as drug candidates. Science 2005;310:451–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Holland ND, Holland LZ, Holland PWH. Scenarios for the making of vertebrates. Nature 2015;520:450–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ono M, Yaguchi H, Ohkura N, Kitabayashi I, Nagamura Y, Nomura T, et al. Foxp3 controls regulatory T-cell function by interacting with AML1/Runx1. Nature 2007;446:685–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Burton E. Business and Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Bellatreche L, Mohania MK, editors. Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery: 15th International Conference, DaWaK 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-29, 2013. Proceedings. vol. 8057. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Evgen’ev MB, Garbuz DG, Zatsepina OG. Different Trends in the Evolution of Heat Shock Genes System. In: Garbuz DG, Zatsepina OG, editors. Heat Shock Proteins and Whole Body Adaptation to Extreme Environments, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 117–34.

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 Ortho Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How To See Shooting Stars Tonight. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/leonid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight/ (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. Review of Selected Projects Under the Bilingual Education Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Porter SM. Orthographic influence on the perception and production of Spanish loans in English. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Walsh MW. In Congress, a Bill Seeks to Tie Municipal Borrowing Power to Public Pension Disclosure. New York Times 2013:B4.

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	Ortho Magazine
ISSN (print)	1262-4586
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