How to format your references using the Gut citation style

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

Hogan CJ. Cosmology. The beginning of time. Science 2002;295:2223–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Volz J, Rauschenbeutel A. Physics. Two atoms announce their long-distance relationship. Science 2012;337:40–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKinney JC, Tchekhovskoy A, Blandford RD. Alignment of magnetized accretion disks and relativistic jets with spinning black holes. Science 2013;339:49–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim K-C, Reed CA, Elliott DW, et al. Crystallographic evidence for a free silylium ion. Science 2002;297:825–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart R. Plautus and Roman Slavery. Chichester, UK: : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2012.

An edited book

Lofrano G, editor. Emerging Compounds Removal from Wastewater: Natural and Solar Based Treatments. Dordrecht: : Springer Netherlands 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang X, Schofield AJ, Wyatt JL. Correlation-Based Intrinsic Image Extraction from a Single Image. In: Daniilidis K, Maragos P, Paragios N, eds. Computer Vision – ECCV 2010: 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 5-11, 2010, Proceedings, Part IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: : Springer 2010. 58–71.

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 Gut.

Blog post

Carpineti A. How We Are Listening To The Universe. IFLScience. 2017.https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-we-are-listening-to-the-universe/ (accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Measuring Progress and Addressing Potential Privacy Concerns Would Facilitate Integration into the National Airspace System [Reissued on September 18, 2012]. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nikolova S. Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums. 2010.

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

Saslow L. Stony Brook Medical Center Names Chief Executive. New York Times. 2006;:14LI2.

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	Gut
Abbreviation	Gut
ISSN (print)	0017-5749
ISSN (online)	1468-3288
Scope	Gastroenterology

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