How to format your references using the Cirujano General citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cirujano General. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Haigwood NL. HIV: tied down by its own receptor. Nature. 2015 Mar 5;519(7541):36–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norenzayan A, Shariff AF. The origin and evolution of religious prosociality. Science. 2008 Oct 3;322(5898):58–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thürmer K, Williams E, Reutt-Robey J. Autocatalytic oxidation of lead crystallite surfaces. Science. 2002 Sep 20;297(5589):2033–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mizuno Y, Hayashi N, Tanaka H, Nakamura K, Todoroki SI. Propagation mechanism of polymer optical fiber fuse. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 25;4:4800.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner D, Balog E. Advanced Technical Analysis of ETFs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Duckers HJ, Nabel EG, Serruys PW, editors. Essentials of Restenosis: For the Interventional Cardiologist. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007. XIV, 458 p. (Contemporary Cardiology).

A chapter in an edited book

Cvijikj IP, Michahelles F. The Toolkit Approach for End-user Participation in the Internet of Things. In: Uckelmann D, Harrison M, Michahelles F, editors. Architecting the Internet of Things. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 65–96.

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 Cirujano General.

Blog post

Andrew E. Washington, D.C. Is Actually Sinking [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/washington-dc-actually-sinking/

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. Smart Highways: Challenges Facing DOT’s Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Jun. Report No.: T-RCED-94-253.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Daum MA. Busy Fingers, Wordless Thoughts: Entering the Knot of Compulsive Hair Twisting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2012.

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

Buckley C. In the Shadow of Towers. New York Times. 2013 Dec 20;A26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Cirujano General
ISSN (print)	1405-0099
Scope