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

MacLeod, K., 2000. The Oort crowd. Nature 406, 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eom, Y.-H., Jo, H.-H., 2014. Generalized friendship paradox in complex networks: the case of scientific collaboration. Sci. Rep. 4, 4603.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy, C.O., Heiple, K.G., Meindl, R.S., 2001. Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410, 325–326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Xiao, T., Takagi, J., Coller, B.S., Wang, J.-H., Springer, T.A., 2004. Structural basis for allostery in integrins and binding to fibrinogen-mimetic therapeutics. Nature 432, 59–67.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rehder, D., 2010. Chemistry in Space. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

DeJaeghere, J.G., Josić, J., McCleary, K.S. (Eds.), 2016. Education and Youth Agency: Qualitative Case Studies in Global Contexts, Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Nohria, A., Bhatt, A., 2009. Hemodynamic Monitoring in Heart Failure, in: Maisel, W.H. (Ed.), Device Therapy in Heart Failure. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp. 119–154.

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., 2017. 100-Year-Old Drug Produces Temporary Improved Learning Skills In Autistic Children [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/100yearold-drug-produces-temporary-improved-learning-skills-in-autistic-children/ (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, 1995. Amtrak: Deteriorated Financial and Operating Conditions Threaten Long-Term Viability (No. T-RCED-95-98). 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

Laskey, E., 2013. Plasma glucagon during development of insulin resistance among healthy individuals (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Olmsted, S.A., 1936. DEPUTY MAYOR IDEA NOT NEW; Tammany Objection to the Charter Plan Regarded as Baseless. New York Times BOOKS20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (MacLeod, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eom and Jo, 2014; MacLeod, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Eom and Jo, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Xiao et al., 2004)

About the journal

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

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