How to format your references using the Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care (BARI). 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

Hopkins PF. Astrophysics: stars fight back. Nature 2014;516(7529):44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cannon CP, Cannon PJ. Physiology. COX-2 inhibitors and cardiovascular risk. Science 2012;336(6087):1386–1387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitfield CW, Cziko A-M, Robinson GE. Gene expression profiles in the brain predict behavior in individual honey bees. Science 2003;302(5643):296–299.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tanaka Y, Fukushima H, Okanoya K, et al. Mothers’ multimodal information processing is modulated by multimodal interactions with their infants. Sci Rep 2014;4:6623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sugirtharajah RS. Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK; 2011.

An edited book

Gollmann D, Lanet J-L, Iguchi-Cartigny J, (eds). Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Ellis JT, Sims RC, Miller CD. Monitoring Microbial Diversity of Bioreactors Using Metagenomic Approaches. In: Reprogramming Microbial Metabolic Pathways. (Wang X, Chen J, Quinn P. eds). Subcellular Biochemistry Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2012; pp. 73–94.

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 Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care.

Blog post

Luntz S. Wingless Wasp Was The Platypus Of The Cretaceous. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wingless-wasp-was-the-platypus-of-the-cretaceous/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ Third Expenditure Plan. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wicks CF. The Self-Concept of Students in Remediation in a Rural Community College in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS; 2017.

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

Surico J. The Film Festival in a Backyard. New York Times 2017;MB3.

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	Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
ISSN (print)	2168-023X
ISSN (online)	2168-0248
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