How to format your references using the Journal de Traumatologie du Sport citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal de Traumatologie du Sport. 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]

Brook EJ. Atmospheric science. Tiny bubbles tell all. Science 2005;310:1285–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Romanowicz B, Giardini D. Geophysics. The future of permanent seismic networks. Science 2001;293:2000–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moritz RE, Bitz CM, Steig EJ. Dynamics of recent climate change in the Arctic. Science 2002;297:1497–502.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lu K, Heng X, Garyu L, Monti S, Garcia EL, Kharytonchyk S, et al. NMR detection of structures in the HIV-1 5’-leader RNA that regulate genome packaging. Science 2011;334:242–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Palaveev P. The Ensemble Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Ohya M. Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Information and Computation and Its Applications to Nano- and Bio-systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ritter O, Spitzer K, Afanasjew M, Becken M, Börner R-U, Eckhofer F, et al. Three-Dimensional Multi-Scale and Multi-Method Inversion to Determine the Electrical Conductivity Distribution of the Subsurface (Multi-EM). In: Weber M, Münch U, editors. Tomography of the Earth’s Crust: From Geophysical Sounding to Real-Time Monitoring: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No. 21, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 83–93.

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 Journal de Traumatologie du Sport.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. You Can Now Charge Your Smartphone With Your Pee. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-can-now-charge-your-smartphone-with-your-pee/ (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. Chemical and Biological Warfare: Use of Collective Protection on Vehicles, Aircraft, and Ships. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Burns KN. Impact of Cognitive Tasks on Gait Parameters in Collegiate Athletes. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Ratliff B. An Online Record Shop for the Faster, Punker Set. New York Times 2016:C1.

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	Journal de Traumatologie du Sport
Abbreviation	J. Traumatol. Sport
ISSN (print)	0762-915X
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Rehabilitation Surgery