How to format your references using the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. 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 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

Morris M. Astronomy. Galactic prominences on the rise. Science. 2006;314:70–71

A journal article with 2 authors

Grubb MS, Burrone J. Activity-dependent relocation of the axon initial segment fine-tunes neuronal excitability. Nature. 2010;465:1070–1074

A journal article with 3 authors

Togashi T, Sasaki H, Yoshimura J. A geometrical approach explains Lake Ball (Marimo) formations in the green alga, Aegagropila linnaei. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3761

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hosten O, Rakher MT, Barreiro JT, Peters NA, Kwiat PG. Counterfactual quantum computation through quantum interrogation. Nature. 2006;439:949–952

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arboleda H, Royer J-C. Model-Driven and Software Product Line Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012

An edited book

Liska I, ed. The Danube River Basin. 1st ed. 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015

A chapter in an edited book

Gotoh T, Nakano T, Shiga Y, Watanabe Y. Energy Dissipation and Pressure in 4d Turbulence. In: Kaneda Y, ed. IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Computational Physics and New Perspectives in Turbulence, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, September, 11-14, 2006. IUTAM Bookseries. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008:27–34

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 Reconstructive Microsurgery.

Blog post

Carpineti A. The Great Red Spot Takes Center Stage In New Jupiter Picture. IFLScience. 2017 Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-great-red-spot-takes-center-stage-in-new-jupiter-picture/. 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

Government Accountability Office. Information Technology: Streamlining FHA’s Single Family Housing Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ayres R. Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction. 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

Hollander S. With More Ice Time, Cohen Looks Ahead. New York Times. September 21, 2002:D7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 of Reconstructive Microsurgery
ISSN (print)	0743-684X
ISSN (online)	1098-8947
Scope	Surgery