How to format your references using the American Journal of Translational Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Translational Research (AJTR). 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Petherick A. Country by country. Nature 2010; 465:S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turner SL, Ray A. Modification of CO2 avoidance behaviour in Drosophila by inhibitory odorants. Nature 2009; 461:277–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lourens LJ, Wehausen R, Brumsack HJ. Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years. Nature 2001; 409:1029–1033.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Müller P, Kuttenkeuler D, Gesellchen V, Zeidler MP, Boutros M. Identification of JAK/STAT signalling components by genome-wide RNA interference. Nature 2005; 436:871–875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigrist J-F. Fluid-Structure Interaction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Clarkson J, Eckert C (Eds.). Design process improvement: A review of current practice. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Lin J-L, Yan H-S. Reconstruction Design Methodology. In: Yan H-S, editor. Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 85–113.

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 American Journal of Translational Research.

Blog post

Luntz S. Watch A Man See For The First Time In 33 Years, Thanks To His New Bionic Eye. IFLScience 2014; .

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. Proposed Amendments to the 1978 Labor, Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Bill. 1977; .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simsic G. Revisiting Addiction Using Depth Psychology: The Myth of Exodus as a Blueprint for Recovery. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute. 2012.

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

Lehman S. What Storm? Getting the Paper Out. New York Times 2017; A2.

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	American Journal of Translational Research
ISSN (online)	1943-8141
Scope