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

Moore P (2005) Cell biology: ion channels and stem cells. Nature 438:699–704

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilhite AW, Fong EA (2012) Scientific publications. Coercive citation in academic publishing. Science 335:542–543

A journal article with 3 authors

Aviezer H, Trope Y, Todorov A (2012) Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions. Science 338:1225–1229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Auboeuf D, Hönig A, Berget SM, O’Malley BW (2002) Coordinate regulation of transcription and splicing by steroid receptor coregulators. Science 298:416–419

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pratt TH (2010) Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Brun L, Vento M (2005) Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition: 5th IAPR International Workshop, GbRPR 2005, Poitiers, France, April 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abracham A (2011) Quo Vadis Hybrid Intelligent Systems: New Trends and Approaches. In: Corchado E, Kurzyński M, Woźniak M (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 30–30

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

Davis J (2016) Fossils From Some Of The Earliest Four-Legged Animals Found In Scotland. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossils-from-some-of-the-earliest-fourlegged-animals-found-in-scotland/. 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 (2006) Analysis of Data for Exports Regulated by the Department of Commerce. 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

Polderman MC (2006) Textile Factories and Subsistence Plots: Rural Women’s Livelihoods and Unique Transition Experiences in Bulgaria. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Pilon M (2014) American Is Suspended. New York Times B12

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