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

Baker M. Fountain of funding for youth. Nature 2007; 448:384.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scholes MC, Scholes RJ. Ecology. Dust unto dust. Science 2013; 342:565–566.

A journal article with 3 authors

Che H, Drake JF, Swisdak M. A current filamentation mechanism for breaking magnetic field lines during reconnection. Nature 2011; 474:184–187.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen TY, Tesanovic Z, Liu RH, Chen XH, Chien CL. A BCS-like gap in the superconductor SmFeAsO0.85F0.15. Nature 2008; 453:1224–1227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reid R, Fraser-King G, Schwaderer WD. Data Lifecycles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Refsdal A. Cyber-Risk Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Nepple KG, Sandhu GS, Kibel AS. Percent Free PSA. In: Jones JS, editor. Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: PSA, Biopsy and Beyond. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013. p. 51–60.

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

Andrew E. 2.7 billion-year old fossilised raindrops. IFLScience 2013; .

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. Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area: Active Assignments. 1995; .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Baker BR. Schizophrenia-spectrum behavior and peer responses to individuals with social anhedonia. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park. 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

Pilon M. Before Attempting To Top Opponents, U.S. Open Players Must Beat Traffic. New York Times 2013; D1.

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