How to format your references using the Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine. 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

1. Gordon DM. Control without hierarchy. Nature. 2007;446:143.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kim N, Jinks-Robertson S. dUTP incorporation into genomic DNA is linked to transcription in yeast. Nature. 2009;459:1150–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Losos JB, Schoener TW, Spiller DA. Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations. Nature. 2004;432:505–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sherson JF, Krauter H, Olsson RK, Julsgaard B, Hammerer K, Cirac I, et al. Quantum teleportation between light and matter. Nature. 2006;443:557–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McBain GD. Theory of Lift. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Antons C, Hilty RM, editors. Intellectual Property and Free Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Hirsch F, Profeta C, Roynette B, Yor M. The Time Inversion Method. In: Profeta C, Roynette B, Yor M, editors. Peacocks and Associated Martingales, with Explicit Constructions. Milano: Springer; 2011. p. 163–79.

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 Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Three New Earth-Like Planets Might Be Our Best Bet For Finding Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/three-earth-planets-discovered-40-light-years-away/

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. Highway Safety: Causes of Injury in Automobile Crashes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 May. Report No.: PEMD-95-4.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Butler BK. Error Floors of LDPC Codes and Related Topics [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2013.

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. Baker L. The Complexities of Keeping It Small and Simple. New York Times. 2007 Nov 9;F10.

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 Reviews in Musculoskeletal Medicine
Abbreviation	Curr. Rev. Musculoskelet. Med.
ISSN (print)	1935-973X
ISSN (online)	1935-9748
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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