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]

Koshland DE Jr. Crazy, but correct. Nature 2004;432:447.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Arnold DH, Johnston A. Motion-induced spatial conflict. Nature 2003;425:181–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Norris DJ, Efros AL, Erwin SC. Doped nanocrystals. Science 2008;319:1776–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dentin R, Liu Y, Koo S-H, Hedrick S, Vargas T, Heredia J, et al. Insulin modulates gluconeogenesis by inhibition of the coactivator TORC2. Nature 2007;449:366–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cobb K. The Blackwell Guide to Theology and Popular Culture. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

[1]

Asch J, Joye A, editors. Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics: Selected and Refereed Lectures from QMath9. vol. 690. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Härdle WK, Simar L. Multivariate Distributions. In: Simar L, editor. Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 117–81.

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]

Andrew E. How To Take The Pressure Off The Cost Of Our Water Supply. IFLScience 2015.

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. Federal Research: Challenges to Implementing the Advanced Technology Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilkins D. The Value of the Semantic Differential to the Art Educator. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2015.

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]

Chapman MM, Bosman J. Man Guilty of Murdering Woman at His Front Door. New York Times 2014:A12.

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