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

Brody H. Lung cancer. Nature. 2014 Sep 11;513(7517):S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chaudhuri J, Jasin M. Immunology. Antibodies get a break. Science. 2007 Jan 19;315(5810):335–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nemoto S, Fergusson MM, Finkel T. Nutrient availability regulates SIRT1 through a forkhead-dependent pathway. Science. 2004 Dec 17;306(5704):2105–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ozbudak EM, Thattai M, Lim HN, Shraiman BI, Van Oudenaarden A. Multistability in the lactose utilization network of Escherichia coli. Nature. 2004 Feb 19;427(6976):737–40.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rangarao KV, Mallik RK. Digital Signal Processing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Ando N, Balakirsky S, Hemker T, Reggiani M, Stryk O von, editors. Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots: Second International Conference, SIMPAR 2010, Darmstadt, Germany, November 15-18, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XV, 558 p. 264 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6472).

A chapter in an edited book

Detroux T, Renson L, Masset L, Kerschen G. The Harmonic Balance Method for Bifurcation Analysis of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems. In: Kerschen G, editor. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–82. (Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series).

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

Hale T. This Guy Made A DIY Liquid Nitrogen-Firing Ice Blaster. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Digital Television Transition: Information on the Implementation of the Converter Box Subsidy Program and Consumer Participation in the Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Sep. Report No.: GAO-08-1161T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

RinconGallardo TJ. The effect of the use of learning journals on the development of metacognition in undergraduate students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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. Justice Dept. Admits Error In Failure To Brief Court. New York Times. 2008 Jul 3;A15.

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