How to format your references using the Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction. 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

Reichhardt T (2000) US astronomers draw up their wish list for a decade of funding. Nature 405:381–382

A journal article with 2 authors

Greene MJ, Gordon DM (2003) Social insects: Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions. Nature 423:32

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG (2001) Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature 414:427–430

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schwickart M, Huang X, Lill JR, et al (2010) Deubiquitinase USP9X stabilizes MCL1 and promotes tumour cell survival. Nature 463:103–107

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kraehmer H, Baur P (2013) Weed Anatomy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue F, Loría A, Panteley E (2005) Advanced Topics in Control Systems Theory: Lecture Notes from FAP 2004. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Šunjić V, Petrović Peroković V (2016) Illogical Disconnections with Participation of Two Groups. In: Petrović Peroković V (ed) Organic Chemistry from Retrosynthesis to Asymmetric Synthesis. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 103–141

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 Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Precursor To Life Molecules May Have Been Formed By Starlight. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/precursor-to-life-molecules-may-have-been-formed-by-starlight/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1990) B-2 Bomber: Initial Flight Tests. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green JT (2010) The relationship between technology support and extent of technology integration into college-level foreign language curricula. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Wagner J (2017) The Mets Find Progress, And Hope for Montero, In a Sweep of the Giants. New York Times D2

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	Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction
Abbreviation	Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr.
ISSN (print)	1828-8936
ISSN (online)	1828-8928
Scope	Orthopedics and Sports Medicine