How to format your references using the Transgender Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transgender Health (TRGH). 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

Connor CE. Neuroscience. A new viewpoint on faces. Science 2010;330(6005):764–765.

A journal article with 2 authors

Min J-H, Pavletich NP. Recognition of DNA damage by the Rad4 nucleotide excision repair protein. Nature 2007;449(7162):570–575.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haskell JP, Ritchie ME, Olff H. Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges. Nature 2002;418(6897):527–530.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yokoya T, Kiss T, Chainani A, et al. Fermi surface sheet-dependent superconductivity in 2H-NbSe2. Science 2001;294(5551):2518–2520.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sestina JE. Planning a Successful Future. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ; 2016.

An edited book

Holden H, Piene R, (eds). The Abel Prize: 2003–2007 The First Five Years. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Caputo JS. Peacebuilding through Dialogue in Northern Ireland. In: Communicating Differences: Culture, Media, Peace and Conflict Negotiation. (Roy S, Shaw IS. eds) Palgrave Macmillan UK: London; 2016; pp. 54–67.

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 Transgender Health.

Blog post

Davis J. Copying Rabies Could Provide A New Way To Treat Brain Cancer. IFLScience; 2017. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Effects on Users of Commercializing Landsat and the Weather Satellites. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dimick KE. Response to Intervention Research to Practice: Exploring a School in Transition—a Case Study. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017;C21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Transgender Health
ISSN (print)	2688-4887
ISSN (online)	2380-193X
Scope