How to format your references using the Injury citation style

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

Balch AL. Chemistry. H₂O in a desert of carbon atoms. Science 2011;333:531–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McGraw JB, Furedi MA. Deer browsing and population viability of a forest understory plant. Science 2005;307:920–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Huang S, Bai M, Wang L. General and facile surface functionalization of hydrophobic nanocrystals with poly(amino acid) for cell luminescence imaging. Sci Rep 2013;3:2023.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Heuer D, Rejman Lipinski A, Machuy N, Karlas A, Wehrens A, Siedler F, et al. Chlamydia causes fragmentation of the Golgi compartment to ensure reproduction. Nature 2009;457:731–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rodman GB. Why Cultural Studies? Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Fantus IG, editor. Insulin Resistance and Cancer: Epidemiology, Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms and Clinical Implications. vol. 1. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Molnar JA. Application of VAC Therapy in Burn Injury. In: Hyakusoku H, Orgill DP, Teot L, Pribaz JJ, Ogawa R, editors. Color Atlas of Burn Reconstructive Surgery, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 16–21.

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 Injury.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Possible Preserved Brain Matter Discovered Within 8,000 Year Old Skull. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-preserved-brain-matter-discovered-within-8000-year-old-skull/ (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. Transportation Infrastructure: Better Data Needed to Rate the Nation’s Highway Conditions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Malekian A. Combinatorial problems in online advertising. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Kelly C. Personal Finance Advice, Taken to the Woodshed. New York Times 2012:BU6.

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	Injury
Abbreviation	Injury
ISSN (print)	0020-1383
Scope	Emergency Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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