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

Turner JA. Chemistry. A nickel finish protects silicon photoanodes for water splitting. Science. 2013 Nov 15;342(6160):811–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shaywitz D, Dansky H. Found in translation. Nature. 2007 Apr 5;446(7136):700.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sreekanth KV, De Luca A, Strangi G. Experimental demonstration of surface and bulk plasmon polaritons in hypergratings. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 21;3:3291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bousquet E, Dawber M, Stucki N, Lichtensteiger C, Hermet P, Gariglio S, et al. Improper ferroelectricity in perovskite oxide artificial superlattices. Nature. 2008 Apr 10;452(7188):732–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stull C, Myers P, Scott DM. Tuned In. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Colombi Ciacchi A, editor. Contents and Effects of Contracts-Lessons to Learn From The Common European Sales Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIII, 295 p. 2 illus. (Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation; vol. 7).

A chapter in an edited book

Wermers RA, Grebe SK. Parathyroid Hormone Measurement Considerations in Primary Hyperparathyroidism. In: Kearns AE, Wermers RA, editors. Hyperparathyroidism: A Clinical Casebook. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 37–45.

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

Andrew D. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Science Says Parents Of Successful Kids Have These 16 Things In Common. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/science-says-parents-of-successful-kids-have-these-16-things-in-common/

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. Telecommunications: National Broadband Plan Reflects the Experiences of Leading Countries, but Implementation Will Be Challenging. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Sep. Report No.: GAO-10-825.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hawkins SH. Lung CT Radiomics: An Overview of Using Images as Data [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

Shpigel B. Patriots Feast on Petty, as on So Many Others. New York Times. 2016 Dec 24;SP3.

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