How to format your references using the Injury Extra citation style

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

Fanelli D. Redefine misconduct as distorted reporting. Nature 2013;494:149.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wilson RI, Nicoll RA. Endocannabinoid signaling in the brain. Science 2002;296:678–82.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kusumbe AP, Ramasamy SK, Adams RH. Coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis by a specific vessel subtype in bone. Nature 2014;507:323–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Keerthi A, Geim AK, Janardanan A, Rooney AP, Esfandiar A, Hu S, et al. Ballistic molecular transport through two-dimensional channels. Nature 2018;558:420–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stone CA, Zissu A. The Securitization Markets Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Puglisi J, Margaris MV, editors. Biophysics and Structure to Counter Threats and Challenges. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Popescu-Zeletin R, Radusch I, Rigani MA. Information in the Vehicular Network. In: Radusch I, Rigani MA, editors. Vehicular-2-X Communication: State-of-the-Art and Research in Mobile Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 47–66.

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 Extra.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Self-Driving Car Travels 3,400 Miles Across America. IFLScience 2015.

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. Mission Support Project: Analyzing User Requirements for Assignment Management Tasks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bryan JD. Team development social networking and its impact on the encouragement of spiritual leadership. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Barker K, Taylor K. Teacher Known as Cool Friend, Until His Arrest. New York Times 2014:A1.

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 Extra
ISSN (print)	1572-3461
Scope	Emergency Medicine Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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