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

Smaglik P (2002) Part-time growth. Nature 420:3

A journal article with 2 authors

Schink B, Friedrich M (2000) Phosphite oxidation by sulphate reduction. Nature 406:37

A journal article with 3 authors

Meierbachtol T, Harper J, Humphrey N (2013) Basal drainage system response to increasing surface melt on the Greenland ice sheet. Science 341:777–779

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhu M, Lei B, Ren F, et al (2014) Branched Au nanostructures enriched with a uniform facet: facile synthesis and catalytic performances. Sci Rep 4:5259

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cantrell RS, Cosner C (2004) Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Kizza JM (2009) A Guide to Computer Network Security. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Jenkins TA, Mendelsohn FAO, Albiston AL, Chai SY (2007) Angiotensin IV Binding Site. In: Carey RM (ed) Hypertension and Hormone Mechanisms. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 61–74

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

Luntz S (2017) Lack of Support When Coming Out Is Biggest Risk For Mental Health, Not Sexual Orientation. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lack-of-support-when-coming-out-is-biggest-risk-for-mental-health-not-sexual-orientation/. 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 (1989) Hazardous Materials: Federal Training for First Responders to Highway and Railroad Incidents. 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

Swofford DM (2009) Impact of a pharmaceutical company’s leadership development program on participant leadership behavior. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Talmadge C (2017) A Military Budget Without a Plan. New York Times A23

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