How to format your references using the Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique. 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]

Rarity JG. Physics. Getting entangled in free space. Science 2003;301:604–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kassiotis G, O’Garra A. Immunology. Immunity benefits from a little suppression. Science 2008;320:1168–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xia K, Vanner MR, Twamley J. An opto-magneto-mechanical quantum interface between distant superconducting qubits. Sci Rep 2014;4:5571.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hsu SY, Nakabayashi K, Nishi S, Kumagai J, Kudo M, Sherwood OD, et al. Activation of orphan receptors by the hormone relaxin. Science 2002;295:671–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mather PM, Koch M. Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Mángano MG, Buatois LA, editors. The Trace-Fossil Record of Major Evolutionary Events: Volume 1: Precambrian and Paleozoic. vol. 39. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Daruich J, Manero E, Parietti A. The Liver and Surgery. In: Caviglia HA, Solimeno LP, editors. Orthopedic Surgery in Patients with Hemophilia, Milano: Springer; 2008, p. 33–46.

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 Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique.

Blog post

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Andrew E. There Was A Decline Of Male Diversity When Humans Took To Agriculture. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/there-was-decline-male-diversity-when-humans-took-agriculture/ (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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. III, No. 2. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gossett JM. Autobiographical insights into the spiritual psychologies of Jung and Bion. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

Barnard A. U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria. New York Times 2017: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	Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique
ISSN (print)	1877-0517
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery