How to format your references using the Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hartnoll S. Physics. Stringing together a solid state. Science. 2008;322(5908):1639-1640.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pielke RA Sr, Chase TN. Comment on “Contributions of anthropogenic and natural forcing to recent tropopause height changes.” Science. 2004;303(5665):1771; author reply 1771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil P, Crespi BJ, Sandoval CP. Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature. 2002;417(6887):440-443.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ito Y, Nakanomyo I, Motose H, et al. Dodeca-CLE peptides as suppressors of plant stem cell differentiation. Science. 2006;313(5788):842-845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hong G. Causality in a Social World. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Arnold VI. Mathematical Aspects of Classical and Celestial Mechanics: Third Edition. Vol 3. (Kozlov VV, Neishtadt AI, eds.). Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Dolan EM, Bauer JW, Katras MJ. Making Rural Employment Work. In: Bauer JW, Dolan EM, eds. Rural Families and Work: Context and Problems. International Series on Consumer Science. Springer; 2011:55-76.

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 Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Get First Look Inside Mysterious Siberian Crater. IFLScience. July 18, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-get-first-look-inside-mysterious-siberian-crater/

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. Health, Education, Employment, and Income Security Reports. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Starner RN. Expanding the Scope of Silyl Protecting Groups for Sialylation Reactions. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 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

Sisario B. Judge Rejects Justice Dept. Decision on Music Licensing. New York Times. September 19, 2016:B4.

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	Translational Metabolic Syndrome Research
ISSN (print)	2588-9303
Scope