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. Burrows A. Supernova explosions in the Universe. Nature. 2000;403:727–33.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Collins FS, Manolio TA. Merging and emerging cohorts: necessary but not sufficient. Nature. 2007;445:259.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Akil H, Martone ME, Van Essen DC. Challenges and opportunities in mining neuroscience data. Science. 2011;331:708–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lawrence JS, Ashley MCB, Tokovinin A, Travouillon T. Exceptional astronomical seeing conditions above Dome C in Antarctica. Nature. 2004;431:278–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. van Deventer DR, Imai K, Mesler M. Advanced Financial Risk Management, Second Edition. Solaris South Tower, Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Agapito L, Bronstein MM, Rother C, editors. Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops: Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7 and 12, 2014, Proceedings, Part II. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kreibig U, Gartz M, Hilger A, Hövel H, Quinten M, Wagner D, et al. A Short Survey of Optical Properties of Metal Nanostructures. In: Kassing R, Petkov P, Kulisch W, Popov C, editors. Functional Properties of Nanostructured Materials. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 75–110.

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. The Dark Truth About Adélie Penguins Was Kept Secret For More Than A Hundred Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ad-lie-penguins-are-sexually-depraved-little-perverts/

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. Aviation Safety: NASA’s National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service Project Was Designed Appropriately, but Sampling and Other Issues Complicate Data Analysis. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Mar. Report No.: GAO-09-112.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Berkowitz AE. Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2015.

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. ABBY GOODNOUGH; Linda Brockman contributed reporting from Fort Lauderdale for this article. Wanting Facts Firsthand, Teenager Makes Secret Trip to Iraq. New York Times. 2005 Dec 31;A10.

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