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

Sarewitz D. Beware the creeping cracks of bias. Nature. 2012 May 9;485(7397):149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kippenberg TJ, Vahala KJ. Cavity optomechanics: back-action at the mesoscale. Science. 2008 Aug 29;321(5893):1172–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scherer E, Munker C, Mezger K. Calibration of the lutetium-hafnium clock. Science. 2001 Jul 27;293(5530):683–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Charpinet S, Fontaine G, Brassard P, Green EM, Van Grootel V, Randall SK, et al. A compact system of small planets around a former red-giant star. Nature. 2011 Dec 21;480(7378):496–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dincer I, Rosen MA, Ahmadi P. Optimization of Energy Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Murthy DNP. Extended Warranties, Maintenance Service and Lease Contracts: Modeling and Analysis for Decision-Making. Jack N, editor. London: Springer; 2014. XVIII, 399 p. 101 illus. (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering).

A chapter in an edited book

Weltner K, Schuster P, Weber WJ, Grosjean J. Exponential, Logarithmic and Hyperbolic Functions. In: Weber WJ, Grosjean J, Schuster P, editors. Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers: Fundamentals and Interactive Study Guide. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 69–84.

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

O`Callaghan J. Smallest Supermassive Black Hole Ever Found Could Reveal How Galaxies Grow [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/smallest-supermassive-black-hole-ever-found-could-reveal-how-galaxies-grow/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Concerns Over Security and Privacy Elements of the Systems Architecture. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Sep. Report No.: IMTEC-92-63.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parihar R. Characterization of the Natural Killer Cell Cytokine Response to Antibody-Coated Tumor Cells [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2004.

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

Saslow L. Route 110 Plan Worries Some Merchants. New York Times. 2006 Sep 2;LI2.

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