How to format your references using the Journal of Tissue Viability citation style

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

[1]

Smaglik P. Wrapped in red tape. Nature 2003;423:783.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rick TC, Erlandson JM. Anthropology. Coastal exploitation. Science 2009;325:952–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pevzner PA, Kim S, Ng J. Comment on “Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry.” Science 2008;321:1040; author reply 1040.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang P, Crespi VH, Chang E, Louie SG, Cohen ML. Computational design of direct-bandgap semiconductors that lattice-match silicon. Nature 2001;409:69–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Freeman RL. Fundamentals of Telecommunications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Kutsar D, Kuronen M, editors. Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities. vol. 59. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ochsner M, Hug SE, Daniel H-D. Humanities Scholars’ Conceptions of Research Quality. In: Ochsner M, Hug SE, Daniel H-D, editors. Research Assessment in the Humanities: Towards Criteria and Procedures, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 43–69.

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 Tissue Viability.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. John Oliver Hilariously Interviews Stephen Hawking. IFLScience 2014.

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. Transportation Security Administration: TSA Executive Attrition Has Declined, but Better Information Is Needed on Reasons for Leaving and Executive Hiring Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ramos J. Surviving Childhood Bullying: Impact on Psychosocial Well-Being in Adulthood. 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]

Kenigsberg B. Left on Purpose. New York Times 2017:C9.

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 of Tissue Viability
Abbreviation	J. Tissue Viability
ISSN (print)	0965-206X
Scope	Dermatology Pathology and Forensic Medicine