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

Merilä J (2015) Evolutionary biology: Perplexing effects of phenotypic plasticity. Nature 525:326–327

A journal article with 2 authors

Cannavo E, Cejka P (2014) Sae2 promotes dsDNA endonuclease activity within Mre11-Rad50-Xrs2 to resect DNA breaks. Nature 514:122–125

A journal article with 3 authors

Shinkai K, Mohrs M, Locksley RM (2002) Helper T cells regulate type-2 innate immunity in vivo. Nature 420:825–829

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nyman M, Bonhomme F, Alam TM, et al (2002) A general synthetic procedure for heteropolyniobates. Science 297:996–998

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimball R, Ross M (2015) The Kimball Group Reader. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Fox J (2016) Sustainable Electricity: Case Studies from Electric Power Companies in North America. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed N (2013) Weak Compactness in the Space of Operator Valued Measures and Optimal Control. In: Hömberg D, Tröltzsch F (eds) System Modeling and Optimization: 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference, CSMO 2011, Berlin, Germany, September 12-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–58

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 D (2016) A Century After The Battle Of The Somme, Can We finally Explain Shell Shock? 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 (1992) Transportation Activities 1946-1975: Interview with Joseph P. Normile, Fred J. Shafer, and Thomas E. Sullivan. 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

Haws SW (2012) A multilevel study of schools’ influences on adolescent substance use. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Yablonsky BYL (2008) Body of Evidence. New York Times M2216

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

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