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

Polaszek A. 2005. A universal register for animal names. Nature 437:477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caughey B, Baron GS. 2006. Prions and their partners in crime. Nature 443:803–810.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu L, Ploessl K, Kung HF. 2013. Chemistry. Expanding the scope of fluorine tags for PET imaging. Science 342:429–430.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Bastolla U, Fortuna MA, Pascual-García A, Ferrera A, Luque B, Bascompte J. 2009. The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature 458:1018–1020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toptygin IN. 2015. Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sherameti I, Varma A, editors. 2011. Detoxification of Heavy Metals. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XXVIII, 448 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bižić-Ionescu M, Ionescu D. 2016. Crossing the Freshwater/Saline Barrier: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacteria Inhabiting Both Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems. In: Glibert PM, Kana TM, editors. Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry: A Dual Perspective, Cham: Springer International Publishing, p 35–44.

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

Taub B. 2016. Microsoft To Help Regulate Legal Marijuana Sales. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/microsoft-to-help-regulate-legal-marijuana-sales/ [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. 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Estrada MI. 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

Dinardo K. 2015. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polaszek, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Polaszek, 2005; Caughey and Baron, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Caughey and Baron, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Bastolla et al., 2009)

About the journal

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