How to format your references using the Annals of Anatomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Anatomy. 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

Ginsparg, P., 2011. ArXiv at 20. Nature 476, 145–147.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sriskantharajah, S., Ley, S.C., 2010. Cell biology. Turning off inflammation signaling. Science 327, 1093–1094.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schieber, J., Krinsley, D., Riciputi, L., 2000. Diagenetic origin of quartz silt in mudstones and implications for silica cycling. Nature 406, 981–985.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roy Chowdhury, R., Vallania, F., Yang, Q., Lopez Angel, C.J., Darboe, F., Penn-Nicholson, A., Rozot, V., Nemes, E., Malherbe, S.T., Ronacher, K., Walzl, G., Hanekom, W., Davis, M.M., Winter, J., Chen, X., Scriba, T.J., Khatri, P., Chien, Y.-H., 2018. A multi-cohort study of the immune factors associated with M. tuberculosis infection outcomes. Nature 560, 644–648.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coombs, W.T., Holladay, S.J., 2011. Managing Corporate Social Responsibility. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Anderson, R., 2013. Pro Arduino. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Weber, R.H., Weber, R., 2010. Governance of the Internet of Things, in: Weber, R. (Ed.), Internet of Things: Legal Perspectives. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 69–100.

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 Annals of Anatomy.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Bone-House Wasp Protects Nest With Ant Corpses [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bone-house-wasp-protects-nest-ant-corpses/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Export Controls: NASA Management Action and Improved Oversight Needed to Reduce the Risk of Unauthorized Access to Its Technologies (No. GAO-14-690T). 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

Steffan, A.L., 2010. An examination of the correlation between ninth grade mathematics grades and student performance on the mathematics portion of the California high school exit examination (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kelly, K., 1999. Children’s Books. New York Times 737.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ginsparg, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ginsparg, 2011; Sriskantharajah and Ley, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Sriskantharajah and Ley, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Roy Chowdhury et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Anatomy
Abbreviation	Ann. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0940-9602
Scope	Developmental Biology General Medicine Anatomy