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]

Gravitz L. Therapy: This time it’s personal. Nature 2014;509:S52-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fields RD, Stevens-Graham B. New insights into neuron-glia communication. Science 2002;298:556–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Alley RB, Fahnestock M, Joughin I. Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times. Science 2008;322:1061–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

McSween HY Jr, Grove TL, Lentz RC, Dann JC, Holzheid AH, Riciputi LR, et al. Geochemical evidence for magmatic water within Mars from pyroxenes in the Shergotty meteorite. Nature 2001;409:487–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

German Geotechnical Society. Recommendations on Excavations EAB. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

King A, editor. Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 17th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2007, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 23-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 4915. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fang AC, Cao J. Etymological Features Across Genres and Registers. In: Cao J, editor. Text Genres and Registers: The Computation of Linguistic Features, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 55–70.

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]

Andrews R. Biologists Just Busted This Long-Standing Sex Myth. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/biologists-just-busted-this-longstanding-sex-myth/ (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. New or Renovated Warehouse Space Provided Under Extended Storage Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Huang J. Multispectral Imaging of Skin Oxygenation. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University, 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]

Herrman J. The Hookup. New York Times 2017:MM70.

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
Scope