How to format your references using the Translational Stroke Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Translational Stroke 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

1. Harra LK. Astronomy. Looking closer at the Sun. Science. 2014;346:305–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Heyward AJ, Negri AP. Turbulence, cleavage, and the naked embryo: a case for coral clones. Science. 2012;335:1064.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Tateishi-Karimata H, Nakano M, Sugimoto N. Comparable stability of Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick base pairs in ionic liquid choline dihydrogen phosphate. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3593.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stockem A, Fiuza F, Bret A, Fonseca RA, Silva LO. Exploring the nature of collisionless shocks under laboratory conditions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3934.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hersent O. IP Telephony. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Hays SA, Robert JS, Miller CA, Bennett I, editors. Nanotechnology, the Brain, and the Future. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Huang D, Leung H. An EM-IMM Method for Simultaneous Registration and Fusion of Multiple Radars and ESM Sensors. In: Mukhopadhyay SC, Leung H, editors. Advances in Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 101–24.

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 Stroke Research.

Blog post

1. Davis J. India Ratifies Paris Climate Agreement, Bringing World Closer To A Binding Deal. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Financial Literacy and Education Commission: Progress Made in Fostering Partnerships, but National Strategy Remains Largely Descriptive Rather Than Strategic. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Apr. Report No.: GAO-09-638T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Harris AN. Deadly force: Perceptions of police and exploration of strategies used by African American mothers to protect their sons [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Biersdorfer JD, Couturier K. Treasure Your Photos and Music? A Guide to Backing Up Critical Data. New York Times. 2017 Mar 31;B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Stroke Research
Abbreviation	Transl. Stroke Res.
ISSN (print)	1868-4483
ISSN (online)	1868-601X
Scope	Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Clinical Neurology General Neuroscience