How to format your references using the Osteoarthritis and Cartilage citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. 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	Download the output style file
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

Alvarez M. A question of supply and demand. Nature. 2007;445(7123):124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Osteryoung KW, Nunnari J. The division of endosymbiotic organelles. Science. 2003;302(5651):1698-1704.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lupp C, Skipper M, Weiss U. Gut microbes and health. Nature. 2012;489(7415):219.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shigeta M, Ohtsuka S, Nishikawa-Torikai S, et al. Maintenance of pluripotency in mouse ES cells without Trp53. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andresen R, Oades LG, Caputi P. Psychological Recovery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Luo X, Spaniol M, Wang L, Li Q, Nejdl W, Zhang W, eds. Advances in Web-Based Learning – ICWL 2010: 9th International Conference, Shanghai, China, December 8-10, 2010. Proceedings. Vol 6483. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Succi S. Mesoscopic particle models of fluid flows. In: Chibbaro S, Minier JP, eds. Stochastic Methods in Fluid Mechanics. CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer; 2014:137-165.

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 Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

Blog post

Hamilton K. In Defense Of Zoos: How Captivity Helps Conservation. IFLScience. June 16, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-defense-of-zoos-how-captivity-helps-conservation/

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

Government Accountability Office. Whole-Body Irradiation Program at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and DOD’s Policy on the Use of Human Subjects for Medical Research. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pope C. Words in the Garden. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Harris G, Schwartz J, Calmes J, Martin J. Donald Trump Holds ‘Thank You’ Rally in Cincinnati, and Announces His Pick for Defense Secretary. New York Times. December 1, 2016:A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Abbreviation	Osteoarthritis Cartilage
ISSN (print)	1063-4584
ISSN (online)	1522-9653
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Rheumatology