How to format your references using the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global open. citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global open.. 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

Zhou M. Materials science. Exceptional properties by design. Science. 2013;339(6124):1161-1162.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosenkranz JA, Grace AA. Dopamine-mediated modulation of odour-evoked amygdala potentials during pavlovian conditioning. Nature. 2002;417(6886):282-287.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaneko Y, Nimmerjahn F, Ravetch JV. Anti-inflammatory activity of immunoglobulin G resulting from Fc sialylation. Science. 2006;313(5787):670-673.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hallett TB, Coulson T, Pilkington JG, Clutton-Brock TH, Pemberton JM, Grenfell BT. Why large-scale climate indices seem to predict ecological processes better than local weather. Nature. 2004;430(6995):71-75.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parke RD. Future Families. John Wiley & Sons; 2013.

An edited book

Inverardi P, Jazayeri M, eds. Software Engineering Education in the Modern Age: Software Education and Training Sessions at the International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2005, St. Louis, MO, USA, May 15-21, 2005, Revised Lectures. Vol 4309. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Romero AJ, Edwards LM, Bauman S, Ritter MK. Reclaiming Malintzin: Healing and Preventing Latina Depression and Suicide. In: Edwards LM, Bauman S, Ritter MK, eds. Preventing Adolescent Depression and Suicide Among Latinas: Resilience Research and Theory. SpringerBriefs in Psychology. Springer International Publishing; 2014:47-57.

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 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global open..

Blog post

Andrew E. CDC Warns Ebola Outbreak Could Top 1 Million By January. IFLScience. September 23, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/without-intervention-cdc-warns-ebola-outbreak-could-top-1-million-january/

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. Technology Development: New DOD Space Science and Technology Strategy Provides Basis for Optimizing Investments, but Future Versions Need to Be More Robust. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monosky KA. Perceived Effectiveness and Utility of Various EMS Credentials. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 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

Shear MD, Haberman M. An Overseas Trip Comes at a Crucial Time, but Trump Is a Reluctant Traveler. New York Times. May 18, 2017:A19.

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	Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery - Global open.
Abbreviation	Plast. Reconstr. Surg. Glob. Open
ISSN (online)	2169-7574
Scope