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

Reichhardt T. Pumping up the volume. Nature 2005; 436:326–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Becskei A, Serrano L. Engineering stability in gene networks by autoregulation. Nature 2000; 405:590–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatano Y, Shimizu T, Tomioka H. Unique macrophages different from M1/M2 macrophages inhibit T cell mitogenesis while upregulating Th17 polarization. Sci Rep 2014; 4:4146.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chao W, Huynh KD, Spencer RJ, Davidow LS, Lee JT. CTCF, a candidate trans-acting factor for X-inactivation choice. Science 2002; 295:345–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wassenaar TM. Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Jandial R, Chen MY, editors. Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

MacDonald MB. Hiphop Citizen. In: MacDonald MB, editor. Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Music. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. page 59–71.

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

Davis J. Some Patients Suffering From Psychosis May Have An Autoimmune Disease Instead [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-patients-suffering-from-psychosis-may-have-an-autoimmune-disease-instead/

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. Performance Management in Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cashion AT. Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development. 2010;

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

Yoo J. Executive Power Run Amok. New York Times2017; :A21.

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

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