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

Bignami, G.F., 2000. A 1,000-year chain of thinkers. Nature 404, 227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pfeiffer, B.E., Foster, D.J., 2013. Hippocampal place-cell sequences depict future paths to remembered goals. Nature 497, 74–79.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharon, E., Cohen, G., Fineberg, J., 2001. Propagating solitary waves along a rapidly moving crack front. Nature 410, 68–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Silva, J.M., Marran, K., Parker, J.S., Silva, J., Golding, M., Schlabach, M.R., Elledge, S.J., Hannon, G.J., Chang, K., 2008. Profiling essential genes in human mammary cells by multiplex RNAi screening. Science 319, 617–620.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pardoux, É., 2008. Markov Processes and Applications: Algorithms, Networks, Genome and Finance, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Witzany, G. (Ed.), 2011. Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms, Soil Biology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhan, L., Nie, Z., Ye, J., Wang, Y., Jin, Y., Jahanshad, N., Prasad, G., de Zubicaray, G.I., McMahon, K.L., Martin, N.G., Wright, M.J., Thompson, P.M., 2014. Multiple Stages Classification of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Structural Brain Networks Using Generalized Low Rank Approximations (GLRAM), in: O’Donnell, L., Nedjati-Gilani, G., Rathi, Y., Reisert, M., Schneider, T. (Eds.), Computational Diffusion MRI: MICCAI Workshop, Boston, MA, USA, September 2014, Mathematics and Visualization. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–44.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Five Myths About Gravitational Waves [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/five-myths-about-gravitational-waves/ (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, 1991. Railroad Safety: DOD Can Improve the Safety of On-Base Track and Equipment (No. RCED-91-135). 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

Kalafut, A.J., 2010. Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Walsh, M.W., 2012. Untouchable Pensions May Be Tested in California. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami, 2000; Pfeiffer and Foster, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Pfeiffer and Foster, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Silva et al., 2008)

About the journal

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