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]

Hormoz S. Amino acid composition of proteins reduces deleterious impact of mutations. Sci Rep 2013;3:2919.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Côté J-F, Vuori K. Cell biology. Two lipids that give direction. Science 2009;324:346–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Falenty A, Hansen TC, Kuhs WF. Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature 2014;516:231–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shin J, Bossenz M, Chung Y, Ma H, Byron M, Taniguchi-Ishigaki N, et al. Maternal Rnf12/RLIM is required for imprinted X-chromosome inactivation in mice. Nature 2010;467:977–81.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Darbyshire P, Hampton D. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Banerjee S, Erçetin ŞŞ, Tekin A, editors. Chaos Theory in Politics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Anastassiou GA, Argyros IK. Newton-Like Procedures and Their Applications in Multivariate Fractional Calculus. In: Argyros IK, editor. Intelligent Numerical Methods II: Applications to Multivariate Fractional Calculus, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 51–62.

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]

Davis J. China May Have Passed Peak Coal Consumption. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-may-have-passed-peak-coal-consumption/ (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. U.S. Involvement at Major International Air Shows Principally Depends on Agencies’ Missions and Aerospace Companies’ Resources. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Oteng Y. Enquête sur la Pluralité Culturelle: Identité et Marginalisation dans le Roman Francophone Colonial et Postcolonial (Chraïbi, Kane, Kourouma, Boudjedra, Ben Jelloun). Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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]

Kishkovsky S. A New Glasnost On War’s Looted Art. New York Times 2003:E1.

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