How to format your references using the Tissue Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tissue Engineering. 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

Batt, C.A. Materials science. Food pathogen detection. Science. 316, 1579, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hom, E.F.Y., and Murray, A.W. Plant-fungal ecology. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science. 345, 94, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Parvanov, E.D., Petkov, P.M., and Paigen, K. Prdm9 controls activation of mammalian recombination hotspots. Science. 327, 835, 2010.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fedoriw, A.M., Stein, P., Svoboda, P., Schultz, R.M., and Bartolomei, M.S. Transgenic RNAi reveals essential function for CTCF in H19 gene imprinting. Science. 303, 238, 2004.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Escarpa, A., González, M.C., and López, M.Á. Agricultural and Food Electroanalysis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Geddes, C.D., and Lakowicz, J.R., eds. Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2005. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Di Michele, L. Sleep and Dreams in Cardiovascular Pathophysiology. In: Roncella, A., and Pristipino, C., eds. Psychotherapy for Ischemic Heart Disease: An Evidence-based Clinical Approach. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 73–82, 2016.

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 Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. The Eye-Opening Parasite That Can Get In Through Your Contact Lens [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience, 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/eye-opening-parasite-can-get-through-your-contact-lens/

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. HUD-Assisted Renters. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995 May. Report No.: RCED-95-167R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vargo, G. Social protest and the novel: Chartism, the radical press, and early Victorian fiction [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University, 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

Schembari, J. A Father, a Son and the Porsche They Went In On Together. New York Times. B4, 2016.

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 Engineering
ISSN (print)	2152-4947
ISSN (online)	2152-4955
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