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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Trauma 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. Khodakhah K. Neuroscience: Decrypting a brain enigma. Nature. 2015;526:326–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. von Zastrow M, Mostov K. Signal transduction. A new thread in an intricate web. Science. 2001;294:1845–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mani RG, Kriisa A, Wegscheider W. Size-dependent giant-magnetoresistance in millimeter scale GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron devices. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2747.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jaillais Y, Fobis-Loisy I, Miège C, Rollin C, Gaude T. AtSNX1 defines an endosome for auxin-carrier trafficking in Arabidopsis. Nature. 2006;443:106–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Jovane F. The ManuFuture Road: Towards Competitive and Sustainable High-Adding-Value Manufacturing. Westkämper E, Williams D, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gore RM, Silvers R. Infectious, Inflammatory, and Ischemic Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. In: Hodler J, Schulthess GK von, Kubik-Huch RA, Zollikofer CL, editors. Diseases of the Abdomen and Pelvis 2014–2017: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques. Milano: Springer; 2014. p. 38–46.

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 Trauma Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. This Man Lived Without His Heart For Over A Year [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-man-lived-without-his-heart-for-over-a-year/

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. Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Jul. Report No.: 093158.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Purdy DW. Identifying Shallow Foundation Failure Modes and Mechanisms Using Surveillance of a Transparent Granular Soil Surrogate [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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. Cowen T. From Colonial India, Lessons for a Changed Economy. New York Times. 2014 Aug 22;BU4.

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 Trauma Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Trauma Rep.
ISSN (online)	2198-6096
Scope