How to format your references using the Bone citation style

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

[1]

J.J. Collins, Journal club. A bioengineer gets schooled by Escherichia coli, Nature 460 (2009) 155.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Baum, A.F. Cowman, Biochemistry. Revealing a parasite’s invasive trick, Science 333 (2011) 410–411.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.J. Gardner, F. Naef, F. Nottebohm, Freedom and rules: the acquisition and reprogramming of a bird’s learned song, Science 308 (2005) 1046–1049.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Gegenwart, T. Westerkamp, C. Krellner, Y. Tokiwa, S. Paschen, C. Geibel, F. Steglich, E. Abrahams, Q. Si, Multiple energy scales at a quantum critical point, Science 315 (2007) 969–971.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Wright, Using Commercial Contracts, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

W. Dörfler, Photonic Crystals: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Approximation, Springer, Basel, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Gautschi, D. Gautschi, How Did We Get to Here? The Role of the State in Fostering Context, in: D. Gautschi (Ed.), Technological Innovation and Economic Transformation: A Method for Contextual Analysis, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 77–119.

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 Bone.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Found: ‘Lost’ Forests Covering An Area Two-Thirds The Size Of Australia, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/found-lost-forests-covering-an-area-twothirds-the-size-of-australia/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Hardison, Achieving Literacy Excellence through Identifying and Utilizing High Yield Strategies, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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

[1]

J. Schwartz, Pardon My Sweat, Pass the Borscht, New York Times (2017) D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Bone
Abbreviation	Bone
ISSN (print)	8756-3282
Scope	Physiology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Histology