How to format your references using the Joint Bone Spine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Joint Bone Spine. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Powell K. Make your point. Nature 2005;434:416–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kurita R, Tanaka H. Critical-like phenomena associated with liquid-liquid transition in a molecular liquid. Science 2004;306:845–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bewley GP, Lathrop DP, Sreenivasan KR. Superfluid helium: visualization of quantized vortices. Nature 2006;441:588.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Carroll KS, Hanna J, Simon I, Krise J, Barbero P, Pfeffer SR. Role of Rab9 GTPase in facilitating receptor recruitment by TIP47. Science 2001;292:1373–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Raheja DG, Allocco M. Assurance Technologies Principles and Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Ebert C, Jäger G, Michaelis J, editors. The Mathematics of Language: 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007, and MOL 11, Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 6149. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Weiss SM, Indurkhya N, Zhang T. Information Retrieval and Text Mining. In: Indurkhya N, Zhang T, editors. Fundamentals of Predictive Text Mining, London: Springer; 2015, p. 81–96.

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 Joint Bone Spine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Dinosaurs Could Have Survived The Asteroid, Study Finds. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-could-have-survived-asteroid-study-finds/ (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. Highway Financing: Participating States Benefit Under Toll Facilities Pilot Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Parihar R. Characterization of the Natural Killer Cell Cytokine Response to Antibody-Coated Tumor Cells. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 2004.

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]

Feeney K. Self-Serve Sundaes. New York Times 2010:NJ11.

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	Joint Bone Spine
Abbreviation	Joint Bone Spine
ISSN (print)	1297-319X
Scope	Rheumatology