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

Fekete DM (2003) Developmental biology. Rocks that roll zebrafish. Science 302:241–242

A journal article with 2 authors

Venters BJ, Pugh BF (2013) Genomic organization of human transcription initiation complexes. Nature 502:53–58

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu L, Ploessl K, Kung HF (2013) Chemistry. Expanding the scope of fluorine tags for PET imaging. Science 342:429–430

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tournaire-Roux C, Sutka M, Javot H, et al (2003) Cytosolic pH regulates root water transport during anoxic stress through gating of aquaporins. Nature 425:393–397

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eisner H (2005) Managing Complex Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Milewski J (2011) Advanced Methods of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Modeling. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Mac an Airchinnigh M (2010) Let Me Tell You Something about (Y)our Culture? In: Kurbanoğlu S, Al U, Lepon Erdoğan P, et al (eds) Technological Convergence and Social Networks in Information Management: Second International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World, IMCW 2010, Ankara, Turkey, September 22-24, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 31–44

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) Don’t Fall For The Deep-Sea Scaremongers – Wild Fishing Is Healthy And Sustainable. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/don-t-fall-deep-sea-scaremongers-wild-fishing-healthy-and-sustainable/. 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 (1998) Department of Education: Information Needs Are at the Core of Management Challenges Facing the Department. 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

Machula M (2014) Understanding and Predicting Teachers’ Knowledge of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Chapman MM (2015) Profit Surges for Ford, Propelled by F-150 Sales. New York Times B10

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

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