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]

A. Mungiu-Pippidi, Corruption: Good governance powers innovation, Nature. 518 (2015) 295–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Chiarugi, M.A. Moskowitz, Cell biology. PARP-1--a perpetrator of apoptotic cell death?, Science. 297 (2002) 200–201.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-M. Nam, C.S. Thaxton, C.A. Mirkin, Nanoparticle-based bio-bar codes for the ultrasensitive detection of proteins, Science. 301 (2003) 1884–1886.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Zhu, Q. Pan, L.-Q. Jia, Z. Dai, A.-W. Ke, H.-Y. Zeng, Z.-Y. Tang, J. Fan, J. Zhou, MiR-302c inhibits tumor growth of hepatocellular carcinoma by suppressing the endothelial-mesenchymal transition of endothelial cells, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5524.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Piantadosi, Clinical Trials: A Methodologic Perspective, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

S.F.M. Duncan, ed., Reoperative Hand Surgery, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Keogh, Recent Advances in Mining Time Series Data, in: A.M. Jorge, L. Torgo, P. Brazdil, R. Camacho, J. Gama (Eds.), Knowledge Discovery in Databases: PKDD 2005: 9th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Porto, Portugal, October 3-7, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005: pp. 6–6.

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

[1]

R. Andrews, These Extraordinary Wind Turbines Could Power Japan For Half A Century Using Just One Typhoon, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Information Technology: DHS Needs to Improve Its Independent Acquisition Reviews, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.L. Dixon-Thompson, The relationship between the usage of a Computer Assisted Instructional (CAI) program, Ticket to Read (T2R) and reading achievement in third grade, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2015.

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]

G. Packer, Revolutionary Roads, New York Times. (2015) BR1.

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

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