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]

Umstadter D. Laser light splits atom. Nature 2000;404:239.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hittinger CT, Carroll SB. Gene duplication and the adaptive evolution of a classic genetic switch. Nature 2007;449:677–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stunnenberg HG, Vermeulen M, Atlasi Y. Developmental biology. A Me6Age for pluripotency. Science 2015;347:614–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang Z, Xia C-Y, Meloni S, Zhou C-S, Moreno Y. Impact of social punishment on cooperative behavior in complex networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:3055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Michaelian KH. Photoacoustic Infrared Spectroscopy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Peacock WF, Clark CL, editors. Short Stay Management of Atrial Fibrillation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Le Romancer M, Poulard C, Sentis S, Corbo L. Post-translational Modifications of ER Alpha in Rapid Estrogen’s Action. In: Castoria G, Migliaccio A, editors. Advances in Rapid Sex-Steroid Action: New Challenges and New Chances in Breast and Prostate Cancers, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 79–93.

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

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Davis J. Researchers Discover Mechanism That Drives Going To Sleep And Waking Up. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/researchers-discover-mechanism-which-drives-going-sleep-and-waking/ (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. Technology: America’s Schools Not Designed or Equipped for 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fearrington ND. The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren). Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2008.

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]

Al-Batati S, Hubbard B. Bank Defends Dealing With Al Qaeda When It Called the Shots. New York Times 2016:A8.

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