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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Assad JA. Neuroscience: Updating views of visual updating. Nature 2014; 507:434–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu Q, Wang X. Opinion dynamics with similarity-based random neighbors. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2968.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kulmala M, Pirjola L, Makela JM. Stable sulphate clusters as a source of new atmospheric particles. Nature 2000; 404:66–9.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Li X, Liu B, Li X-L, Li Y-X, Sun M-Z, Chen D-Y, Zhao X, Feng X-Z. SiO2 nanoparticles change colour preference and cause Parkinson’s-like behaviour in zebrafish. Sci Rep 2014; 4:3810.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanna VK. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor IGBT Theory and Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Chakraborty A. Emotional Intelligence: A Cybernetic Approach. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Lesser A, Schulze S, Niehuis R, Kähler C, Lieser J. Analytical Design of an Inlet Distortion Generator and Its Experimental and Numerical Validation. In: Dillmann A, Heller G, Kreplin H-P, Nitsche W, Peltzer I, editors. New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics VIII: Contributions to the 17th STAB/DGLR Symposium Berlin, Germany 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 33–41.

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

Andrew D. Why Is It Still So Hard For Patients In Need To Get Medicinal Cannabis? [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-is-it-still-so-hard-for-patients-in-need-to-get-medicinal-cannabis/

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. Information Technology: A Model to Help Managers Decrease Acquisition Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nannapaneni D. Factors associated with HPV acceptability among parents. 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

Pilon M. In Texas, the Sabbath Trumps the Semifinals. New York Times2012; :B12.

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