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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Surgery 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 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. Johnson C. Paleontology. Megafaunal decline and fall. Science. 2009;326:1072–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lo M-T, Lee W-C. Detecting a weak association by testing its multiple perturbations: a data mining approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5081.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mahadevan A, Thomas LN, Tandon A. Comment on “Eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms.” Science. 2008;320:448; author reply 448.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tanda S, Tsuneta T, Okajima Y, Inagaki K, Yamaya K, Hatakenaka N. A Möbius strip of single crystals. Nature. 2002;417:397–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stamp M. Information Security. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Menon GI, Ray P, editors. The Physics of Disordered Systems. Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Umnov AV, Krylov AS, Nasonov AV. Ringing Artifact Suppression Using Sparse Representation. In: Battiato S, Blanc-Talon J, Gallo G, Philips W, Popescu D, Scheunders P, editors. Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 16th International Conference, ACIVS 2015, Catania, Italy, October 26-29, 2015 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 35–45.

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 Surgery Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Scientists Analyze DNA From Bigfoot Samples [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-analyze-dna-bigfoot-samples/

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 Trust Fund: Overview of Highway Trust Fund Estimates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Apr. Report No.: GAO-06-572T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cong M. A Comparative Analysis of Acculturative Stress Among Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese International Students at a Hispanic Serving University [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Vecsey G. For Hughes, Gold Medal Never Trumped Family Life. New York Times. 2010 Feb 10;B11.

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 Surgery Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Surg. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2167-4817
Scope