How to format your references using the Fuss und Sprunggelenk citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fuss und Sprunggelenk. 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

[1]

Thompson C. CRISPR: Move beyond differences. Nature 2015;522:415.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Abbott MB, Wolfe AP. Intensive pre-Incan metallurgy recorded by lake sediments from the Bolivian Andes. Science 2003;301:1893–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fukuda H, Murase H, Tokuda IT. Controlling circadian rhythms by dark-pulse perturbations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci Rep 2013;3:1533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cho SM, Kim HV, Lee S, Kim HY, Kim W, Kim TS, et al. Correlations of amyloid-β concentrations between CSF and plasma in acute Alzheimer mouse model. Sci Rep 2014;4:6777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lavi MR. The Impact of IFRS on Industry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Liu Z, editor. Essentials of Chinese Medicine: Essentials of Clinical Specialties in Chinese Medicine. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Foshay WR, Villachica SW, Stepich DA. Cousins but Not Twins: Instructional Design and Human Performance Technology in the Workplace. In: Spector JM, Merrill MD, Elen J, Bishop MJ, editors. Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 39–49.

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 Fuss und Sprunggelenk.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Musical Rhythm May Be An Intrinsic Feature Of Human Cognition. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/musical-rhythm-may-intrinsic-feature-human-cognition/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Information Technology: INS Needs to Strengthen Its Investment Management Capability. 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

[1]

Kaiser CV. “Maps of the world[s] in its becoming[s]”: Seeking queer potentialities in the post-apocalyptic narrative. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Marx L. When ‘I Do’ Still Sounds Like a Good Idea. New York Times 2016:ST18.

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	Fuss und Sprunggelenk
ISSN (print)	1619-9987
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine