How to format your references using the Digestion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digestion. 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	Download the output style file
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

Eberhard WG. Spider manipulation by a wasp larva. Nature. 2000 Jul;406(6793):255–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel AG, Kaufmann SH. Cancer. Targeting bacteria to improve cancer therapy. Science. 2010 Nov;330(6005):766–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Coplan PM, Mitchnick M, Rosenberg ZF. Public health. Regulatory challenges in microbicide development. Science. 2004 Jun;304(5679):1911–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Michel FM, Ehm L, Antao SM, Lee PL, Chupas PJ, Liu G, et al. The structure of ferrihydrite, a nanocrystalline material. Science. 2007 Jun;316(5832):1726–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cliteur P. The Secular Outlook. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Stollkleemann S, Welp M, editors. Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Sandkuhl K. On the Role of Enterprise Modelling in Engineering Cyber-Physical Systems. In: Řepa V, Bruckner T, editors. Perspectives in Business Informatics Research: 15th International Conference, BIR 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, September 15–16, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016; pp 50–64.

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 Digestion.

Blog post

Taub B. Why Are People So Curious? [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015 Nov [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/ever-wondered-what-makes-us-so-curious-1/

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

Government Accountability Office. FTS2001: Improving the Revenue Estimation Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tubbs MA. The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction. 2014

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

Schwartz J. Students, Cities and States Take the Global Warming Fight to Court. New York Times. 2017 Aug;A11.

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	Digestion
Abbreviation	Digestion
ISSN (print)	0012-2823
ISSN (online)	1421-9867
Scope	Gastroenterology

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