How to format your references using the New Horizons in Translational Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Horizons in Translational Medicine. 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]

R.K. Pachauri, India pushes for common responsibility, Nature 461 (2009) 1054.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Chang, M. Karin, Mammalian MAP kinase signalling cascades, Nature 410 (2001) 37–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.A. Chen, R.W. Roberts, J.W. Szostak, The emergence of competition between model protocells, Science 305 (2004) 1474–1476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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B. Doray, P. Ghosh, J. Griffith, H.J. Geuze, S. Kornfeld, Cooperation of GGAs and AP-1 in packaging MPRs at the trans-Golgi network, Science 297 (2002) 1700–1703.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Hens, Building Physics - Heat, Air and Moisture, Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G. Pifat-Mrzljak, ed., Supramolecular Structure and Function 9, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

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J. Beer, K. McCracken, R. von Steiger, The Cosmic Radiation Near Earth, in: K. McCracken, R. von Steiger (Eds.), Cosmogenic Radionuclides: Theory and Applications in the Terrestrial and Space Environments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 19–78.

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 New Horizons in Translational Medicine.

Blog post

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D. Andrew, 7 Strange And Surprising Ways That Humans Have Recently Evolved, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/7-strange-and-surprising-ways-that-humans-have-recently-evolved/ (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, Battlefield Automation: Field Artillery Data Systems Acquisition Problems and Budget Impacts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

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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B.D. Valenzuela, Thirty-Year-Old Mulberry Field, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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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M.D. Shear, M. Haberman, In Interview, Bannon Contradicts Trump on North Korea, and Lashes Out at Rivals, New York Times (2017) A18.

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	New Horizons in Translational Medicine
Abbreviation	New Horiz. Transl. Med.
ISSN (print)	2307-5023
Scope	General Medicine