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

Fiore AM (2014) Atmospheric chemistry: No equatorial divide for a cleansing radical. Nature 513:176–178

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore T, Armstrong KM (2003) Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature 421:370–373

A journal article with 3 authors

Depège N, Bellafiore S, Rochaix J-D (2003) Role of chloroplast protein kinase Stt7 in LHCII phosphorylation and state transition in Chlamydomonas. Science 299:1572–1575

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lo S-T, Chen KY, Lin S-D, et al (2013) Controllable disorder in a hybrid nanoelectronic system: realization of a superconducting diode. Sci Rep 3:2274

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik B, Roy DM (2005) Service Design for Six Sigma. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Krömer R, Chin-Drian Y (2012) New Essays on Leibniz Reception: In Science and Philosophy of Science 1800-2000. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Babatunde Y, Low SP (2015) Appraisal of the Relationships Between the Chinese and the Nigerian Construction Industries. In: Low SP (ed) Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance: Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria. Springer, Singapore, pp 59–66

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

Andrew E (2015) Designer Microbes Might Be Coming To A Gut Near You. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/designer-microbes-might-be-coming-gut-near-you/. 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 (1975) Office of Education Contracts With Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations. 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

Sherman CP (2001) The effect of head and heart on municipal employee retention. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Sisario B (2017) The Pianist Behind Dylan’s Nobel Lecture. New York Times C2

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