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. Castle SL. Organic synthesis: Better chemistry through radicals. Nature. 2014;516:332–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cox RM, Calsbeek R. Cryptic sex-ratio bias provides indirect genetic benefits despite sexual conflict. Science. 2010;328:92–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bhagat D, Samanta SK, Bhattacharya S. Efficient management of fruit pests by pheromone nanogels. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1294.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ward BB, Devol AH, Rich JJ, Chang BX, Bulow SE, Naik H, et al. Denitrification as the dominant nitrogen loss process in the Arabian Sea. Nature. 2009;461:78–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Arboleda H, Royer J-C. Model-Driven and Software Product Line Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Pfeiffer S. Beginning HTML5 Media: Make the most of the new video and audio standards for the Web. Green T, editor. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. El Ouali A, Sefrioui S, Mudry J, Fassi Fihri O, Essahlaoui A, Marah H. Contribution of Isotopes of the Water Molecule to Determine Recharge Altitude of the Main Springs Welling Up in the Middle Atlas Limestone (Morocco). In: Mudry J, Zwahlen F, Bertrand C, LaMoreaux JW, editors. H2Karst Research in Limestone Hydrogeology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–68.

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. Taub B. How Unregulated Hunting Almost Wiped Out Amazonian Species. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Federal Student Loans: Education Could Improve Direct Loan Program Customer Service and Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-523.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Addington LM. Students’ Preferences for Information Sources during the Undergraduate College Search Process: The Influence of Technology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2012.

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. Strauss B. Knicks’ Rose May Be in Court, Not on It, When Team Begins Preseason. New York Times. 2016 Sep 16;B15.

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