How to format your references using the Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening. 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

Beaudet AL. Neuroscience. Preventable forms of autism? Science. 2012 Oct 19;338(6105):342–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brochard-Wyart F, de Gennes PG. Physics. How soft skin wrinkles. Science. 2003 Apr 18;300(5618):441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lappe M, Awater H, Krekelberg B. Postsaccadic visual references generate presaccadic compression of space. Nature. 2000 Feb 24;403(6772):892–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jové M, Naudí A, Aledo JC, Cabré R, Ayala V, Portero-Otin M, et al. Plasma long-chain free fatty acids predict mammalian longevity. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 28;3:3346.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

James L. Sustainability Footprints in SMEs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Hänsler E, Schmidt G, editors. Topics in Acoustic Echo and Noise Control: Selected Methods for the Cancellation of Acoustical Echoes, the Reduction of Background Noise, and Speech Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. XIX, 642 p. (Signals and Communication Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Sandercock L. What Is a Neighbourhood House? In: Attili G, editor. Where Strangers Become Neighbours: Integrating Immigrants in Vancouver, Canada. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 115–21.

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 Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. Liquid Gallium Meets A Bluetooth Speaker And A Freaky Dance Ensues.

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. Public Transportation: Improvements Are Needed to More Fully Assess Predicted Impacts of New Starts Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Jul. Report No.: GAO-08-844.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bono S. Perceptions of Psychological Abuse and the Impact of Blame and Gender Role Beliefs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2013.

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

Prochnik G. City of Earthy Delights. New York Times. 2009 Dec 13;WK10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening
Abbreviation	Tidsskr. Nor. Laegeforen.
ISSN (print)	0029-2001
ISSN (online)	0807-7096
Scope	General Medicine