How to format your references using the Anatomical Sciences Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Anatomical Sciences Education (ASE). 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

Reynolds SE. 2013. Ecology. Immunity and invasive success. Science 340:816–817.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldenfeld N, Woese C. 2007. Biology’s next revolution. Nature 445:369.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dolan JF, Christofferson SA, Shaw JH. 2003. Recognition of paleoearthquakes on the Puente Hills blind thrust fault, California. Science 300:115–118.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Downs JP, Daeschler EB, Jenkins FA Jr, Shubin NH. 2008. The cranial endoskeleton of Tiktaalik roseae. Nature 455:925–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi FJ, Kothari V. 2008. Introduction to Securitization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Scott-Conner CEH (Editor). 2008. The SAGES Manual of Strategic Decision Making: Case Studies in Minimal Access Surgery. New York, NY: Springer. XL, 616 p. 125 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Dimick JB, Shih T, Ryan AM. 2014. Health Policy Research in Surgery. In: Dimick JB, Greenberg CC (Editors). Success in Academic Surgery: Health Services Research. London: Springer. p 37–45.

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 Sciences Education.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. What Does It Look Like When A Person Gets Struck By Lightning? IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-does-it-look-when-person-gets-struck-lightning/ [accessed 30 October 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. 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Julfayan-Gregorian V. 2017. Success Strategies of First-Generation Foreign-Born Leaders. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University. Doctoral dissertation.

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

Fitzsimmons EG. 2017. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reynolds, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Goldenfeld and Woese, 2007; Reynolds, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Goldenfeld and Woese, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Downs et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Anatomical Sciences Education
ISSN (print)	1935-9772
ISSN (online)	1935-9780
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