How to format your references using the Skeletal Muscle citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Skeletal Muscle. 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. Alberts B. The breakthroughs of 2012. Science. 2012;338:1511.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cheung KC, Gershenfeld N. Reversibly assembled cellular composite materials. Science. 2013;341:1219–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Panday V, Tiest WMB, Kappers AML. Integration of length and curvature in haptic perception. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3856.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Elyada E, Pribluda A, Goldstein RE, Morgenstern Y, Brachya G, Cojocaru G, et al. CKIα ablation highlights a critical role for p53 in invasiveness control. Nature. 2011;470:409–13.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Paladino B. Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Islam MDN, editor. Public Health Challenges in Contemporary China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. 1st ed. 2016. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Camenisch J, Dubovitskaya M, Lehmann A, Neven G, Paquin C, Preiss F-S. Concepts and Languages for Privacy-Preserving Attribute-Based Authentication. In: Fischer-Hübner S, Leeuw E de, Mitchell C, editors. Policies and Research in Identity Management: Third IFIP WG 116 Working Conference, IDMAN 2013, London, UK, April 8-9, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 34–52.

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 Skeletal Muscle.

Blog post

1. Fang J. In Quantum Breakthrough, Scientists Get Two Photons To Interact [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/quantum-breakthrough-scientists-get-two-photons-interact/. 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. Results Act: Observations on NASA’s May 1997 Draft Strategic Plan. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jul. Report No.: NSIAD-97-205R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Theisen TD. Improving the collaboration infrastructure of an online inter -institutional consortium [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2008.

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. Wagner J. Dodgers Prevail in a Pitchers’ Duel That Wasn’t. New York Times. 2016 Oct 8;D2.

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	Skeletal Muscle
Abbreviation	Skelet. Muscle
ISSN (online)	2044-5040
Scope	Cell Biology Molecular Biology Orthopedics and Sports Medicine