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

Dennis C. Stem-cell reverse angers Australian biologists. Nature. 2002 Mar 7;416(6876):4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buss JA, Agapie T. Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site. Nature. 2016 Jan 7;529(7584):72–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rand DG, Greene JD, Nowak MA. Spontaneous giving and calculated greed. Nature. 2012 Sep 20;489(7416):427–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kops GJPL, Dansen TB, Polderman PE, Saarloos I, Wirtz KWA, Coffer PJ, et al. Forkhead transcription factor FOXO3a protects quiescent cells from oxidative stress. Nature. 2002 Sep 19;419(6904):316–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowlinson M. A Practical Guide to the NEC3 Engineering and Construction Contract. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Henes M, Murray BH, editors. Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760–1900. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. XIV, 248 p. (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture).

A chapter in an edited book

Craven M. Learning Expressive Models of Gene Regulation. In: Železný F, Lavrač N, editors. Inductive Logic Programming: 18th International Conference, ILP 2008 Prague, Czech Republic, September 10-12, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 4–4. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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. Seeing The Universe Through Spectroscopic Eyes. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Public Transportation: Survey of Project Sponsors on Their Transit Projects and Experience with the Federal Transit Administration’s New Starts and Small Starts Programs (GAO-07-927SP, July 2007), an E-supplement to GAO-07-917. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Jul. Report No.: GAO-07-927SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beard AR. Absence Causation in Mechanistic Explanation [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Schmidt MS. Trump Appears Unlikely to Hinder Comey’s Testimony About Russia Investigation. New York Times. 2017 Jun 3;A14.

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
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