How to format your references using the Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique. 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]

Willett WC. Balancing life-style and genomics research for disease prevention. Science 2002;296:695–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Orszag JM, Orszag PR. Economics. Individual accounts: lessons from international experience. Science 2005;309:250–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Sugase K, Dyson HJ, Wright PE. Mechanism of coupled folding and binding of an intrinsically disordered protein. Nature 2007;447:1021–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Decker RB, Krimigis SM, Roelof EC, Hill ME, Armstrong TP, Gloeckler G, et al. Mediation of the solar wind termination shock by non-thermal ions. Nature 2008;454:67–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ambachtsheer KP. The Future of Pension Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Purcell J, Mianzan H, Frost JR, editors. Jellyfish Blooms IV: Interactions with humans and fisheries. vol. 220. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Both F, Gerritsen C, Hoogendoorn M, Treur J. Model-Based Default Refinement of Partial Information within an Ambient Agent. In: Mühlhäuser M, Ferscha A, Aitenbichler E, editors. Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI 2007 Workshops Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007 Revised Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 34–43.

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 Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Scientists Turn Mice Into Bloodthirsty Predators By Shining Lasers On Their Brains. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-turn-mice-into-bloodthirsty-predators-shining-lasers-their-brains/ (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. Weather Satellites: Cost Growth and Development Delays Jeopardize U.S. Forecasting Ability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

HaMai T. The “other” women: What about the experiences of women faculty of color in community colleges? Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Writer-Politician To Be Freed. New York Times 2003:A10.

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	Revue de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique
ISSN (print)	1877-0517
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Surgery