How to format your references using the Ortho Magazine citation style

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

Jaeger NI. Surface science. Bridging gaps and opening windows. Science 2001;293:1601–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Arinaminpathy N, Dowdy D. Understanding the incremental value of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis. Nature 2015;528:S60-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bonneh YS, Cooperman A, Sagi D. Motion-induced blindness in normal observers. Nature 2001;411:798–801.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yan Y, Wang L-X, Ke X, Van Tendeloo G, Wu X-S, Yu D-P, et al. High-mobility Bi2Se3 nanoplates manifesting quantum oscillations of surface states in the sidewalls. Sci Rep 2014;4:3817.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Souza de Cursi E. Variational Methods for Engineers with Matlab®. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Coen S, editor. Mathematicians in Bologna 1861–1960. Basel: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vleju MB. A Client-Centric ASM-Based Approach to Identity Management in Cloud Computing. In: Castano S, Vassiliadis P, Lakshmanan LV, Lee ML, editors. Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2012 Workshops CMS, ECDM-NoCoDA, MoDIC, MORE-BI, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM, Florence, Italy, October 15-18, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 34–43.

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 Ortho Magazine.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Great Whites Feasting On A Whale Carcass Off Coast Of Massachusetts Are A Good Sign For The Species. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/great-whites-feasting-on-a-whale-carcass-off-coast-of-massachusetts-are-a-good-sign-for-the-species/ (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. Executive Office of the President: Analysis of Mandated Report on Key Information Technology Areas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Khojandi N. Investigating Secondary Infections and their Impact on Host Fitness in the Dictyostelium-Burkholderia Symbiosis System. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]

Vecsey G. When Goodell Learned That Life Is No Game. New York Times 2010:SP5.

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	Ortho Magazine
ISSN (print)	1262-4586
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