How to format your references using the Current Osteoporosis Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Osteoporosis 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

1. Rowley JD. Genetics. A story of swapped ends. Science. 2013;340:1412–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Levitt SD, List JA. Economics. Homo economicus evolves. Science. 2008;319:909–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gerstein M, Lan N, Jansen R. Proteomics. Integrating interactomes. Science. 2002;295:284–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Huang AL, Chen X, Hoon MA, Chandrashekar J, Guo W, Tränkner D, et al. The cells and logic for mammalian sour taste detection. Nature. 2006;442:934–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shi Y, Liu M, Fang F. Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Nakao K, Minato N, Uemoto S, editors. Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development. 1st ed. 2015. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Rugini E, De Pace C, Gutiérrez-Pesce P, Muleo R. Olea. In: Kole C, editor. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 79–117.

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 Current Osteoporosis Reports.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Patients Struggle To Read Words When Part Of Their Brain Is Shut Down [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/patients-struggle-to-read-words-when-part-of-their-brain-is-shut-down/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Social Security: Service to the Public--Accuracy of the 800 Phone Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 May. Report No.: T-HRD-90-30.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cuthbertson TH. The fool’s replies: Toward a poetics of folly in Shakespeare’s comedies [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2014.

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

1. Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017 Oct 19;C26.

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	Current Osteoporosis Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Osteoporos. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1544-1873
ISSN (online)	1544-2241
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism