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

Schubert C. 2011. Single-cell analysis: The deepest differences. Nature 480:133–137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hering JG, Ingold KM. 2012. Water management. Water resources management: what should be integrated? Science 336:1234–1235.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang X, Wang Y, Li M. 2014. Selecting water-alcohol mixed solvent for synthesis of polydopamine nano-spheres using solubility parameter. Sci Rep 4:6070.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Song H, Kim Y, Jang YH, Jeong H, Reed MA, Lee T. 2009. Observation of molecular orbital gating. Nature 462:1039–1043.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy R. 2010. Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Turck C, editor. 2009. Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders. Boston, MA: Springer US. X, 538 p. 36 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Tapia DI, García Ó, Alonso RS, Guevara F, Catalina J, Bravo RA, Corchado JM. 2012. Evaluating the n-Core Polaris Real-Time Locating System in an Indoor Environment. In: Rodríguez JMC, Pérez JB, Golinska P, Giroux S, Corchuelo R, editors. Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, p 29–37.

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

Evans K. 2016. You Will Probably Be Stereotyped If You Use These Words. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/you-will-probably-be-stereotyped-if-you-use-these-words/ [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. 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Griess JO. 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

Conte L. 2011. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schubert, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Schubert, 2011; Hering and Ingold, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hering and Ingold, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Song 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