How to format your references using the Arthroplasty Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthroplasty Today. 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

[1]

Macilwain C. World view: ERA of austerity. Nature 2010;466:314.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hinde K, Lewis ZT. MICROBIOTA. Mother’s littlest helpers. Science 2015;348:1427–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Adams MD, McVey M, Sekelsky JJ. Drosophila BLM in double-strand break repair by synthesis-dependent strand annealing. Science 2003;299:265–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fillmore CM, Xu C, Desai PT, Berry JM, Rowbotham SP, Lin Y-J, et al. Author Correction: EZH2 inhibition sensitizes BRG1 and EGFR mutant lung tumours to TopoII inhibitors. Nature 2018;563:E27.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bittner M. Temporality: Universals and Variation. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Wallace WA, Wroble RR, Maffulli N, Kordi R, editors. Combat Sports Medicine. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dang Q-V, Nielsen I, Steger-Jensen K. Mathematical Formulation for Mobile Robot Scheduling Problem in a Manufacturing Cell. In: Frick J, Laugen BT, editors. Advances in Production Management Systems. Value Networks: Innovation, Technologies, and Management: IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference, APMS 2011, Stavanger, Norway, September 26-28, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 37–44.

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 Arthroplasty Today.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Einstein Vs Quantum Mechanics ... And Why He’d Be A Convert Today. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/einstein-vs-quantum-mechanics-and-why-he’d-be-convert-today/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Small Business: Proposed Amendments to the Small Business Innovation Research Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yoon J. Jan Radzynski’s Canto (1981): An Introductory View of Its Genre, Style, and Form, with Suggestions for Performance. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 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

[1]

Hernández JC, Drucker J. Wooing China Investors With the Trump Name And Offers of U.S. Visas. New York Times 2017:A18.

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	Arthroplasty Today
Abbreviation	Arthroplast. Today
ISSN (print)	2352-3441
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