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

Goldston D. Making room for dissent. Nature 2007;448(7153):524.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster DJ, Wilson MA. Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 2006;440(7084):680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Häkkinen S, Rhines PB, Worthen DL. Atmospheric blocking and Atlantic multidecadal ocean variability. Science 2011;334(6056):655–659.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lay T, Hernlund J, Garnero EJ, et al. A post-perovskite lens and D’’ heat flux beneath the central Pacific. Science 2006;314(5803):1272–1276.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leibowitz ML, Bova A, Hammond PB. The Endowment Model of Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2010.

An edited book

Teixeira PN, Johnstone DB, Rosa MJ, et al., (eds). Cost-Sharing and Accessibility in Higher Education: A Fairer Deal? Higher Education Dynamics. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Delepoulle S, Renaud C, Chelle M. Improving Light Position in a Growth Chamber through the Use of a Genetic Algorithm. In: Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Computer Graphics. (Plemenos D, Miaoulis G. eds). Studies in Computational Intelligence Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009; pp. 67–82.

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

Hale T. National Geographic Show Its Early Picks For 2016 Nature Photographer of the Year. IFLScience; 2016. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Needs Enhanced Oversight and Performance Measures. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chahine J. Social Workers’ Perceptions of Individuals Who Use Drugs and Alcohol Problematically. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Burghardt LF. Mutiny in the Harbor: One Ship Too Many. New York Times 2006;LI7.

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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