How to format your references using the Calcified Tissue International citation style

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

Eagleman DM (2004) Neuroscience. The where and when of intention. Science 303:1144–1146

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan J, Yankner BA (2000) Apoptosis in the nervous system. Nature 407:802–809

A journal article with 3 authors

Li H, Li WX, Ding SW (2002) Induction and suppression of RNA silencing by an animal virus. Science 296:1319–1321

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Botella H, Blom H, Dorka M, et al (2007) Jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes. Nature 448:583–586

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D (2014) The JCT Standard Building Contract 2011. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Heineman GT, Kofron J, Plasil F (2010) Research into Practice – Reality and Gaps: 6th International Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures, QoSA 2010, Prague, Czech Republic, June 23 - 25, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Matsuba S (2006) Does History Have a Purpose?; History Theory of Merleau-Ponty in the Latter Half of the 1940S. In: Tymieniecka A-T (ed) Logos of Phenomenology and Phenomenology of the Logos. Book Three: Logos of History - Logos of Life. Historicity, Time, Nature, Communication, Consciousness, Alterity, Culture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–77

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 Calcified Tissue International.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) SpaceX Rocket Smashes Into Ship During Failed Return Experiment. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1997) Weather Service Modernization: Risks Remain That Full Systems Potential Will Not be Achieved. 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

Wick HF (2001) Applying Natural Horn Technique to Modern Valved Horn Performance Practice. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Koblin J (2017) ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoffs From HBO. New York Times C2

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	Calcified Tissue International
Abbreviation	Calcif. Tissue Int.
ISSN (print)	0171-967X
ISSN (online)	1432-0827
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Orthopedics and Sports Medicine