How to format your references using the Clinical Anatomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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

Smaglik P. 2002. A decisive effort? Nature 418:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reyes CL, Chang G. 2005. Structure of the ABC transporter MsbA in complex with ADP.vanadate and lipopolysaccharide. Science 308:1028–1031.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cerda E, Ravi-Chandar K, Mahadevan L. 2002. Thin films. Wrinkling of an elastic sheet under tension. Nature 419:579–580.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Pelletier L, O’Toole E, Schwager A, Hyman AA, Müller-Reichert T. 2006. Centriole assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 444:619–623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley RL Jr. 2011. Edison to Enron. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wu W, Yu H-S, editors. 2006. Modern Trends in Geomechanics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. X, 560 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Edmiston J, Steigmann D. 2011. Analysis of Nonlinear Electrostatic Membranes. In: Ogden RW, Steigmann DJ, editors. Mechanics and Electrodynamics of Magneto- and Electro-Elastic Materials, Vienna: Springer, p 153–180.

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 Clinical Anatomy.

Blog post

Fang J. 2014. Existence of Exotic Hadron Confirmed. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/existence-exotic-hadron-confirmed/ [accessed October 2018].

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. 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khaleghi FK. 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

Paulson M. 2017. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2002; Reyes and Chang, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reyes and Chang, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Pelletier et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Anatomy
Abbreviation	Clin. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0897-3806
ISSN (online)	1098-2353
Scope	General Medicine Anatomy Histology