How to format your references using the European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. 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. Rona PA. Geology. Resources of the sea floor. Science. 2003;299:673–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cruz M, Coontz R. Exoplanets. Alien worlds galore. Introduction. Science. 2013;340:565.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Song C, Havlin S, Makse HA. Self-similarity of complex networks. Nature. 2005;433:392–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schoepp-Cothenet B, Duval S, Santini JM, Nitschke W. Comment on “Arsenic (III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California.” Science. 2009;323:583; author reply 583.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Managing Process Safety Risks During Organizational Change. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Qin Y, editor. Network Coding at Different Layers in Wireless Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nevshupa R, Hiratsuka K. Luminescence of Triboplasma: Origin, Features, and Behavior. In: Olawale DO, Okoli OOI, Fontenot RS, Hollerman WA, editors. Triboluminescence: Theory, Synthesis, and Application. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–93.

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 European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. UK Announces First Mission To The Moon [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/uk-announces-its-first-mission-moon/

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. DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Sep. Report No.: GAO-03-1018.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bornmann JW. Becoming soldiers: Army Basic Training and the negotiation of identity [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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. Grynbaum MM. Typically Chummy Ritual Offers Moment of Catharsis. New York Times. 2017 Apr 30;A15.

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	European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Trauma Emerg. Surg.
ISSN (print)	1863-9933
ISSN (online)	1863-9941
Scope	Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Emergency Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery