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

Loveland W. Chemistry. Superheavy carbonyls. Science. 2014;345(6203):1451-1452.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finlay CC, Jackson A. Equatorially dominated magnetic field change at the surface of Earth’s core. Science. 2003;300(5628):2084-2086.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlos C, Torres TT, Ottoboni LMM. Bacterial communities and species-specific associations with the mucus of Brazilian coral species. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1624.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fang J, Chen A, Peng C, Zhao S, Ci L. Changes in forest biomass carbon storage in China between 1949 and 1998. Science. 2001;292(5525):2320-2322.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marcus Y. Supercritical Water. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Kawano Y, Mosca M, eds. Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication, and Cryptography: Third Workshop, TQC 2008 Tokyo, Japan, January 30 - February 1, 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Vol 5106. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Ignatenko T, Willems FMJ. Privacy Leakage in Binary Biometric Systems: From Gaussian to Binary Data. In: Campisi P, ed. Security and Privacy in Biometrics. Springer; 2013:105-122.

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

Luntz S. Iron Additive Turns Bacteria Into Electricity Producers. IFLScience. Published February 9, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/iron-additive-turns-bacteria-into-electricity-producers/

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. Social Security Administration: Update on Year 2000 and Other Key Information Technology Initiatives. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fails JA. Mobile Collaboration for Young Children: Reading and Creating Stories. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Walsh MW. I.R.S. Reversal on ‘Church’ Pension Plan Rescues a Fund. New York Times. April 2, 2013:B3.

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

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