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]

Gächter S. Behavioural economics: Visible inequality breeds more inequality. Nature 2015;526:333–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ikeda T, Ube T. Materials science: A superelastic organic crystal. Nature 2014;511:300–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

García-Ruiz JM, Melero-García E, Hyde ST. Morphogenesis of self-assembled nanocrystalline materials of barium carbonate and silica. Science 2009;323:362–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kumar N, Attri P, Yadav DK, Choi J, Choi EH, Uhm HS. Induced apoptosis in melanocytes cancer cell and oxidation in biomolecules through deuterium oxide generated from atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma jet. Sci Rep 2014;4:7589.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Utas G. Robust Communications Software. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Merker GP, Schwarz C, Teichmann R, editors. Combustion Engines Development: Mixture Formation, Combustion, Emissions and Simulation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tunstall NE, Warr CG. Chemical Communication in Insects: The Peripheral Odour Coding System of Drosophila Melanogaster. In: López-Larrea C, editor. Sensing in Nature, New York, NY: Springer US; 2012, p. 59–77.

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]

Andrew E. How to Produce Sparks from Falling Water. 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. Space Acquisitions: DOD Delivering New Generations of Satellites, but Space System Acquisition Challenges Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sun Z. A qualitative study of Chinese parents’ beliefs, involvement and challenges in support of their children’s English language development in China. 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

[1]

Kolomatsky M. Detroit Home Market Warms Up. New York Times 2017:RE2.

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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