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]

Abbott A. Human fatality adds fresh impetus to fight against bird flu. Nature 2003;423:5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Xu B, Tao NJ. Measurement of single-molecule resistance by repeated formation of molecular junctions. Science 2003;301:1221–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Whiteman G, Hope C, Wadhams P. Vast costs of Arctic change. Nature 2013;499:401–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang X, Lu W, Dai J, Bourgeois L, Yao J, Wang H, et al. Nanofabrication of highly ordered, tunable metallic mesostructures via quasi-hard-templating of lyotropic liquid crystals. Sci Rep 2014;4:7420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ciobanu CV, Wang C-Z, Ho K-M. Atomic Structure Prediction of Nanostructures, Clusters and Surfaces. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Bas P. Watermarking Security. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Recker J, Safrudin N, Rosemann M. How Novices Model Business Processes. In: Hull R, Mendling J, Tai S, editors. Business Process Management: 8th International Conference, BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 29–44.

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]

Hamilton K. Should We Still Be Choosing Fat-Free Over Full-Fat Products? 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. Intercity Passenger Rail: Amtrak Faces Challenges in Improving Its Financial Condition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wood RD. Correlation of conductor leadership style, musician employment status, organizational participation to orchestra musician job satisfaction. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Hodgman J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2017:MM16.

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

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