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

Keil, F.C., 2011. Psychology. Science starts early. Science 331, 1022–1023.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stevens, M.M., George, J.H., 2005. Exploring and engineering the cell surface interface. Science 310, 1135–1138.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Q., Li, Y., Tsien, R.W., 2009. The dynamic control of kiss-and-run and vesicular reuse probed with single nanoparticles. Science 323, 1448–1453.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nykypanchuk, D., Maye, M.M., van der Lelie, D., Gang, O., 2008. DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles. Nature 451, 549–552.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety, 1995. Guidelines for Safe Storage and Handling of Reactive Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kim, T.-H., Adeli, H., Robles, R.J., Balitanas, M. (Eds.), 2011. Ubiquitous Computing and Multimedia Applications: Second International Conference, UCMA 2011, Daejeon, Korea, April 13-15, 2011. Proceedings, Part I, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tomczak, A., Koropacka, K., Smant, G., Goverse, A., Bakker, E., 2009. Resistant Plant Responses, in: Berg, R.H., Taylor, C.G. (Eds.), Cell Biology of Plant Nematode Parasitism, Plant Cell Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 83–113.

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

Carpineti, C., 2017. Incredible Footage Shows A Baby Being Born Via A “Natural C-Section” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/incredible-footage-shows-a-baby-being-born-via-a-natural-csection/ (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, 1977. Earth Resources Information Satellite System Act (No. B-181426). 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

Littlefield, S., 2017. Application of Discrete Event Simulation to Modeling Reliability of Highly Parallel Systems with Common Cause Failures (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Weaver, M.A., 2015. Why Do They Go? New York Times MM42.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keil, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Keil, 2011; Stevens and George, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Stevens and George, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Nykypanchuk et al., 2008)

About the journal

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