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

Csontos D. 2010. Exotic matter. Nature 464:175.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rouse J, Jackson SP. 2002. Interfaces between the detection, signaling, and repair of DNA damage. Science 297:547–551.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tsori Y, Tournilhac F, Leibler L. 2004. Demixing in simple fluids induced by electric field gradients. Nature 430:544–547.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Essner JJ, Vogan KJ, Wagner MK, Tabin CJ, Yost HJ, Brueckner M. 2002. Conserved function for embryonic nodal cilia. Nature 418:37–38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kindmann R, Krüger U. 2013. Stahlbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Caccavale F. 2011. Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors. London: Springer. XVII, 186 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Breedveld P. 2009. Port-based modelling of multidomain physical systems in terms of bond graphs. In: Arnold M, Schiehlen W, editors. Simulation Techniques for Applied Dynamics, Vienna: Springer, p 141–190.

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

Andrew D. 2017. Life On Earth Is Used To Gravity – So What Happens To Our Cells And Tissues In Space? IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/life-on-earth-is-used-to-gravity-so-what-happens-to-our-cells-and-tissues-in-space/ [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. 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zimmerman TF. 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

Burghardt LF. 2008. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Csontos, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Rouse and Jackson, 2002; Csontos, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Rouse and Jackson, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Essner et al., 2002)

About the journal

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