How to format your references using the Artificial Organs citation style

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

Butler D. French lab seeks recipe for success. Nature. 2000;407:551.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guttman M, Rinn JL. Modular regulatory principles of large non-coding RNAs. Nature. 2012;482:339–46.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sánchez I, Mahlke C, Yuan J. Pivotal role of oligomerization in expanded polyglutamine neurodegenerative disorders. Nature. 2003;421:373–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gasser S, Orsulic S, Brown EJ, Raulet DH. The DNA damage pathway regulates innate immune system ligands of the NKG2D receptor. Nature. 2005;436:1186–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summerhayes SD. CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual. Chichester, UK: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Lörz H, Wenzel G, editors. Molecular Marker Systems in Plant Breeding and Crop Improvement. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005. XXII, 478 p. 42 illus., 5 illus. in color. (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry; vol. 55).

A chapter in an edited book

Wester R. Energy Transport and Heat Conduction. In: Poprawe R, editor. Tailored Light 2: Laser Application Technology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 43–62. (RWTHedition).

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 Artificial Organs.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. This Is Jupiter As You’ve Never Seen It Before [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-is-jupiter-as-youve-never-seen-it-before/

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. Use of Civilian Agencies’ Aircraft for Passenger Transportation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Sep. Report No.: T-GGD-88-52.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan BA. Computer-Based Versus Paper-Pencil Modes of Administration United States Government End of Course Exams: Student Cumulative Grade Point Averages as Predictors of Success [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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

Vecsey G. A Foreign Game Looks Very American. New York Times. 2010;B12.

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	Artificial Organs
ISSN (print)	1525-1594
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