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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Callaway E. 2013. Transmission: Control issues. Nature 502:S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen A, Koehler AN. 2015. Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor. Science 347:713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ragazzoni R, Marchetti E, Valente G. 2000. Adaptive-optics corrections available for the whole sky. Nature 403:54–56.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Tanaka H, Homma K, Iwane AH, Katayama E, Ikebe R, Saito J, Yanagida T, Ikebe M. 2002. The motor domain determines the large step of myosin-V. Nature 415:192–195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pouly M, Kohlas J. 2011. Generic Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Commisso TH, Nørbjerg J, Pries-Heje J (Editors). 2014. Nordic Contributions in IS Research: 5th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2014, Ringsted, Denmark, August 10-13, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing. X, 133 p. 20 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Humphreys H, Winter B, Paul M. 2013. Microbiology Laboratory Diagnosis of Infection. In: Winter B, Paul M (Editors). Infections in the Adult Intensive Care Unit. London: Springer. p 43–54.

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 D. 2016. We’ve Been Wrong About The Origins Of Life For 90 Years. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/weve-been-wrong-about-the-origins-of-life-for-90-years/ [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. 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Warren KL. 2014. Agents of Change: A New Role for Learners in Online Workplace Training. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Greenhouse L. 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 (Callaway, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Callaway, 2013; Chen and Koehler, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Chen and Koehler, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Tanaka et al., 2002)

About the journal

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