How to format your references using the Journal of Computational Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational Surgery. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Autor DH (2014) Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent.” Science 344:843–851
A journal article with 2 authors
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Small EM, Olson EN (2011) Pervasive roles of microRNAs in cardiovascular biology. Nature 469:336–342
A journal article with 3 authors
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Wasmuth EV, Januszyk K, Lima CD (2014) Structure of an Rrp6-RNA exosome complex bound to poly(A) RNA. Nature 511:435–439
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Tegze M, Faigel G, Marchesini S, et al (2000) Imaging light atoms by X-ray holography. Nature 407:38

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Griskey RG (2005) Transport Phenomena and Unit Operations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Bojňanský V (2007) ATLAS OF SEEDS AND FRUITS OF CENTRAL AND EAST-EUROPEAN FLORA: The Carpathian Mountains Region. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht
A chapter in an edited book
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Beaty B, Woo B (2016) A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby? In: Woo B (ed) The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 43–52

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 of Computational Surgery.

Blog post
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Luntz S (2014) Copper Block Sets Record Cold Temperature. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/copper-block-sets-record-cold-temperature/. Accessed 30 Oct 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
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Government Accountability Office (1986) ADP Equipment: FAA’s Use of a Suspended Contractor. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Browning A (2012) An electronic on-board recorder for intermodal drayage operations. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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
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Cooper M (2017) A Beloved Russian Baritone’s Surprise Return. New York Times C4

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 titleJournal of Computational Surgery
AbbreviationJ. Comput. Surg.
ISSN (online)2194-3990
Scope

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