How to format your references using the Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery. 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

Vaupel JW. Biodemography of human ageing. Nature. 2010;464(7288):536-542.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chester TL, Parcher JF. Tech.Sight. Blurring the boundaries. Science. 2001;291(5503):502-503.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mishra L, Derynck R, Mishra B. Transforming growth factor-beta signaling in stem cells and cancer. Science. 2005;310(5745):68-71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hammond SM, Boettcher S, Caudy AA, Kobayashi R, Hannon GJ. Argonaute2, a link between genetic and biochemical analyses of RNAi. Science. 2001;293(5532):1146-1150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.G. Upton G. Categorical Data Analysis by Example. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Masferrer A, García-Sánchez E, eds. Human Dignity of the Vulnerable in the Age of Rights: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Vol 55. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Jordan L, Greyling P. Embedding Lua in Android Applications. In: Greyling P, ed. Practical Android Projects. Apress; 2011:155-192.

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: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery.

Blog post

Luntz S. Sidelined Antibiotic Could Be Koalas’ Salvation From Chlamydia. IFLScience. August 30, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sidelined-antibiotic-could-be-koalas-salvation-from-chlamydia/

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. Regulatory Programs: Opportunities to Enhance Oversight of the Real Estate Appraisal Industry. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rafibakhsh N. Industrial Applications of Microsoft Xbox Kinect Sensor. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2013.

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

Rothenberg B. Youth Retreats as Women’s Draw Highlights an Age of Thirtysomethings. New York Times. June 3, 2017:D3.

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: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery
Abbreviation	Arthroscopy
ISSN (print)	0749-8063
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine