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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schlermiler Q. German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature. 2000;404(6781):915.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stewart I, Cohen J. Monolith. Nature. 2000;408(6815):913.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmore D, Foulkes NS, Sassone-Corsi P. Light acts directly on organs and cells in culture to set the vertebrate circadian clock. Nature. 2000;404(6773):87-91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Diggle SP, Griffin AS, Campbell GS, West SA. Cooperation and conflict in quorum-sensing bacterial populations. Nature. 2007;450(7168):411-414.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fulton BS. Drug Discovery for the Treatment of Addiction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Keuper F, Oecking C, Degenhardt A, eds. Application Management: Challenges – Service Creation – Strategies. Gabler; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark S, Blaze M, Smith J. Blood in the Water. In: Christianson B, Malcolm J, eds. Security Protocols XVIII: 18th International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 24-26, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2014:12-17.

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

Carpineti A. ALMA Revisits Hubble’s Famous Ultra Deep Field Image Of The Distant Universe. IFLScience. September 22, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/alma-revisits-hubbles-famous-ultra-deep-field-image-of-the-distant-universe/

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. Information Technology: VA and DOD Continue to Expand Sharing of Medical Information, but Still Lack Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farrugia TJ. Abundance, Habitat Use and Movement Patterns of the Shovelnose Guitarfish (Rhinobatus Productus) in a Restored Southern California Estuary. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Rojas R. Prosecutors Set to Begin in Retrial of Patz Suspect. New York Times. October 18, 2016:A19.

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