How to format your references using the Bone Reports citation style

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

Wilczek, F., 2004. From “not wrong” to (maybe right). Nature 428, 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

KewalRamani, V.N., Coffin, J.M., 2003. Virology. Weapons of mutational destruction. Science 301, 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Runguphan, W., Qu, X., O’Connor, S.E., 2010. Integrating carbon-halogen bond formation into medicinal plant metabolism. Nature 468, 461–464.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, G., Seiler, H., Wen, A., Zars, T., Ito, K., Wolf, R., Heisenberg, M., Liu, L., 2006. Distinct memory traces for two visual features in the Drosophila brain. Nature 439, 551–556.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Batten, L.M., 2013. Public Key Cryptography. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Reusch, B. (Ed.), 2006. Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications: International Conference 9th Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 18–20, 2006 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dooly, M., 2013. Promoting Competency-Based Language Teaching Through Project-Based Language Learning, in: Pérez Cañado, M.L. (Ed.), Competency-Based Language Teaching in Higher Education, Educational Linguistics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 77–91.

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 Reports.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Editing the Human Genome One Letter At A Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/editing-human-genome-one-letter-time/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2015. 2020 Census: Key Information Technology Decisions Must Be Made Soon (No. GAO-16-205T). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fischer, B.C., 2017. Toward Understanding Resonant Volcanic Seismic Signals: Modelling Bubbly Flow in Magma (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Arvedlund, E.E., SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting for this article, 2004. After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow’s Full of Foreboding. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Wilczek, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (KewalRamani and Coffin, 2003; Wilczek, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (KewalRamani and Coffin, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bone Reports
Abbreviation	Bone Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-1872
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