How to format your references using the Arthroscopy Techniques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthroscopy Techniques. 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	Download the output style file
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

May RM. Raising Europe’s game. Nature. 2004;430(7002):831-832.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ray-Gallet D, Almouzni G. Molecular biology. Mixing or not mixing. Science. 2010;328(5974):56-57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Tonder GJ, Lyons MJ, Ejima Y. Visual structure of a Japanese Zen garden. Nature. 2002;419(6905):359-360.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sun Y, Cao W, Li S, et al. Ultrabright and multicolorful fluorescence of amphiphilic polyethyleneimine polymer dots for efficiently combined imaging and therapy. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3036.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coenen T. Essentials of Corporate Fraud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Tessman L, ed. Feminist Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy: Theorizing the Non-Ideal. Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Dela Haije TCJ, Duits R, Tax CMW. Sharpening Fibers in Diffusion Weighted MRI via Erosion. In: Westin CF, Vilanova A, Burgeth B, eds. Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data. Mathematics and Visualization. Springer; 2014:97-126.

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 Arthroscopy Techniques.

Blog post

Andrew E. These Cute Sea Slugs Are The Sheep Of The Sea. IFLScience.

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. Direct Student Loans. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green EI. Caregiver Wellness: An Inquiry of Health Risks among Frontline Direct Caregivers of the Elderly and Disabled. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Kelly J. COSMETIC LIB FOR MEN. New York Times. September 25, 1977:The New York Times Magazine234.

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	Arthroscopy Techniques
Abbreviation	Arthrosc. Tech.
ISSN (print)	2212-6287
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine