How to format your references using the New Solutions citation style

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

M. Solis, “Prevention: Before the break,” Nature 508(7494) (2014): S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. P. Luoto and L. Nevalainen, “Long-term water temperature reconstructions from mountain lakes with different catchment and morphometric features,” Scientific reports 3 (2013): 2488.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Xu, Y. Su, and Z. H. Fan, “Cotinine concentration in serum correlates with tobacco smoke-induced emphysema in mice,” Scientific reports 4 (2014): 3864.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Bulte et al., “Ecology and conservation. Space--the final frontier for economists and elephants,” Science (New York, N.Y.) 306(5695) (2004): 420–421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Wolfgang Moll and Annika Moll, Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau (Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2011).

An edited book

[1]

A. P. Mitra and C. Sharma, eds., Global Environmental Changes in South Asia: A Regional Perspective (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jo Chiung Hua Chen and Hong An Wu, “Aesthetic Creativity: Bridging Arts, Culture, and Education,” in Creative Arts in Education and Culture: Perspectives from Greater China, eds Samuel Leong and Bo Wah Leung (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013), 43–53.

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 Solutions.

Blog post

[1]

Elise Andrew, “Horses Have Similar Facial Expressions As Humans And Chimps.” https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/horses-have-similar-facial-expressions-humans-and-chimps/ . (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Strategic Bombers: Adding Conventional Capabilities Will Be Complex, Time-Consuming, and Costly, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rebecca Olch, “Low cost/no cost quality of life programs in non-profit theatre,” (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2010).

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]

M. Kelly, “Clinton Myth of Nonideological Politics Stumbles,” New York Times (1993): 126.

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 Solutions
Abbreviation	New Solut.
ISSN (print)	1048-2911
ISSN (online)	1541-3772
Scope	General Medicine