How to format your references using the Anatomical Science International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anatomical Science International. 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

Paytan A (2000) Global change. Iron uncertainty. Nature 406:468–469

A journal article with 2 authors

Sorensen EJ, Sammis GM (2004) Chemistry. A dash of proline makes things sweet. Science 305:1725–1726

A journal article with 3 authors

Ergon T, Lambin X, Stenseth NC (2001) Life-history traits of voles in a fluctuating population respond to the immediate environment. Nature 411:1043–1045

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lien W-H, Klezovitch O, Fernandez TE, et al (2006) alphaE-catenin controls cerebral cortical size by regulating the hedgehog signaling pathway. Science 311:1609–1612

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles R (2008) 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Pollet BG (2016) The Energy Landscape in the Republic of South Africa, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Ageron P (2007) Logic without Self-Deductibility. In: Beziau J-Y (ed) Logica Universalis: Towards a General Theory of Logic. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp 87–93

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 Anatomical Science International.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Lock-And-Key Technology Promises Rapid Cancer Testing for Developing World. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-lock-and-key-technology-promises-rapid-cancer-testing-developing-world/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1993) Information Resources: USDA Lacks Data on Major Computer Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma Y (2013) Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Itzkoff D, Bai M, Spitznagel E, et al (2012) The One-Page Magazine. New York Times MM11

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Paytan 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Paytan 2000; Sorensen and Sammis 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sorensen and Sammis 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lien et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Anatomical Science International
Abbreviation	Anat. Sci. Int.
ISSN (print)	1447-6959
ISSN (online)	1447-073X
Scope	General Medicine Anatomy