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

Kündig P. Chemistry. The future of organic synthesis. Science 2006; 314:430–431.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nanda R, Rhodes-Kropf M. ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Financing experiments. Science 2015; 348:1200.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koechlin E, Ody C, Kouneiher F. The architecture of cognitive control in the human prefrontal cortex. Science 2003; 302:1181–1185.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Holtgrieve GW, Schindler DE, Hobbs WO, Leavitt PR, Ward EJ, Bunting L, Chen G, Finney BP, Gregory-Eaves I, Holmgren S, Lisac MJ, Lisi PJ, Nydick K, Rogers LA, Saros JE, Selbie DT, Shapley MD, Walsh PB, Wolfe AP. A coherent signature of anthropogenic nitrogen deposition to remote watersheds of the Northern Hemisphere. Science 2011; 334:1545–1548.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nemethy L. Business Exit Planning. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Goemans M, Correa J (Eds.). Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization: 16th International Conference, IPCO 2013, Valparaíso, Chile, March 18-20, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheung WS, Dragomir SS. A Survey on Ostrowski Type Inequalities for Riemann–Stieltjes Integral. In: Rassias TM, editor. Handbook of Functional Equations: Functional Inequalities. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 75–104.

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. This Tiny Camera Could Take Real Time Images From Inside Your Arteries. 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. FCC: Reconsideration of the Rules and Policies for the 220-222 MHz Radio Service. 1998; .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeHart WP. The leader liminal sphere: A phenomenological inquiry. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine 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

Branch J. No White House Visit? Actually, No Invitation. New York Times 2017; B13.

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

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