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

Gershon D (2002) Cell biology gets plugged in. Nature 417:6

A journal article with 2 authors

Cummings CA, Relman DA (2002) Genomics and microbiology. Microbial forensics--"cross-examining pathogens". Science 296:1976–1979

A journal article with 3 authors

Park GD, Ko YN, Kang YC (2014) Electrochemical properties of cobalt hydroxychloride microspheres as a new anode material for Li-ion batteries. Sci Rep 4:5785

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He J, Sinues PM-L, Hollmén M, et al (2014) Fingerprinting breast cancer vs. normal mammary cells by mass spectrometric analysis of volatiles. Sci Rep 4:5196

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson JB (2005) Digital Transmission Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Misra AA (2015) Tectonic Inheritance in Continental Rifts and Passive Margins. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Hennessy O, Kane C (2009) Starting with a Game Design Document: A Methodology for Success. In: Bondo J, Fothergill A, Greenstone B, et al. (eds) iPhone Games Projects. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 129–152

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

Luntz S (2014) Inside the World’s Largest Snake Orgy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/inside-worlds-largest-snake-orgy/. 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 (1986) Educating Deaf Students at Federally Assisted Postsecondary Schools. 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

Carroll WE (2017) Leadership and emotional intelligence: Ability-based and mixed models of emotional intelligence as predictors of leadership performance across manager levels. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Rutenberg J, Steel E, Koblin J (2016) Kisses and Fear for the Women From Fox News. New York Times A1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cummings and Relman 2002; Gershon 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cummings and Relman 2002)
Three or more authors: (He et al. 2014)

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