How to format your references using the Tissue Barriers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tissue Barriers. 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	Download the output style file
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

Erwin DH. David M. Raup (1933-2015). Nature 2015; 524:36.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ernst MO, Banks MS. Humans integrate visual and haptic information in a statistically optimal fashion. Nature 2002; 415:429–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biggins JB, Onwueme KC, Thorson JS. Resistance to enediyne antitumor antibiotics by CalC self-sacrifice. Science 2003; 301:1537–41.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu C-X, Zheng Y-X, Zheng X-H, Hu Q, Zhao Y, Ji L-N, Mao Z-W. V-shaped dinuclear Pt(II) complexes: selective interaction with human telomeric G-quadruplex and significant inhibition towards telomerase. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2060.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cerroni L, Gatter K, Kerl H. Skin Lymphoma: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009.

An edited book

Manfrè L, editor. Spinal Instability. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Verpoest WMJA, de Die-Smulders CEM. Assisted Reproductive Care for PGD Patients. In: El-Toukhy T, Braude P, editors. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in Clinical Practice. London: Springer; 2014. page 41–53.

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 Tissue Barriers.

Blog post

Carpineti C. The Finalists From The Sony World Photography Awards 2017 Are Absolutely Astonishing [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-finalists-from-the-sony-world-photography-awards-2017-are-absolutely-astonishing/

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. Federal Programs for Education of the Handicapped: Issues and Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsari F. Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia. 2015;

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

Kenigsberg B. Lost in Paris. New York Times2017; :C7.

In-text citations

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

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	Tissue Barriers
Abbreviation	Tissue Barriers
ISSN (online)	2168-8370
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Histology