How to format your references using the Journal of Minimal Access Surgery citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Minimal Access Surgery. 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

Wickware P. Fields of dreams. Nature. 2002 Jan 24;415(6870):4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Falkowski PG, Isozaki Y. Geology. The story of O2. Science. 2008 Oct 24;322(5901):540–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hung CL, Gurarie V, Chin C. From cosmology to cold atoms: observation of Sakharov oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. Science. 2013 Sep 13;341(6151):1213–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mezzacapo A, Las Heras U, Pedernales JS, DiCarlo L, Solano E, Lamata L. Digital quantum Rabi and Dicke models in superconducting circuits. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 15;4:7482.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stuart B. Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012. (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences).

An edited book

Bhattacharya R. A Basic Course in Probability Theory. 2nd ed. 2016. Waymire EC, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XII, 265 p. (Universitext).

A chapter in an edited book

Beloff MJ. Is There A Lex Sportiva? In: Siekmann RCR, Soek J, editors. Lex Sportiva: What is Sports Law? The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press; 2012. p. 69–89. (ASSER International Sports Law Series).

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 Journal of Minimal Access Surgery.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Learn How To Manage What Facebook And Twitter Know About You. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/learn-how-to-manage-what-facebook-and-twitter-know-about-you/

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. Opportunities for Improving Cash Management Practices, Regional Finance and Data Processing Center, Paris, France. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Oct. Report No.: 093268.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zacher B. The roles of electrode contacts in organic photovoltaics [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2013.

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

Greenhouse L. Justice Dept. Admits Error In Failure To Brief Court. New York Times. 2008 Jul 3;A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Journal of Minimal Access Surgery
Abbreviation	J. Minim. Access Surg.
ISSN (print)	0972-9941
ISSN (online)	1998-3921
Scope	Surgery