How to format your references using the Journal of the Anatomical Society of India citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Anatomical Society of India. 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

Wunsch C. Oceanography. What is the thermohaline circulation? Science. 2002;298(5596):1179-1181.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chilingarian I, Zolotukhin I. Galaxy evolution. Isolated compact elliptical galaxies: stellar systems that ran away. Science. 2015;348(6233):418-421.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks AR, Marec F, Breeuwer JA. A mite species that consists entirely of haploid females. Science. 2001;292(5526):2479-2482.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gaudet F, Hodgson JG, Eden A, et al. Induction of tumors in mice by genomic hypomethylation. Science. 2003;300(5618):489-492.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bi J. Sensory Discrimination Tests and Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Meško G, Fields CB, Lobnikar B, Sotlar A, eds. Handbook on Policing in Central and Eastern Europe. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Yi H, Tian X. A Study to Neuron Ensemble of Cognitive Cortex ISI Coding Represent Stimulus. In: Zhang L, Lu BL, Kwok J, eds. Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2010: 7th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2010, Shanghai, China, June 6-9, 2010, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2010:27-32.

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 the Anatomical Society of India.

Blog post

Hale T. How To Make The Perfect Grilled Cheese Sandwich With Science. IFLScience.

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. Information on the New Community of Soul City, North Carolina. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tan C. Conceptualizing Psychological History: Edgar Allan Poe and the Themes of the Normal and the Pathological, Life and Death. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Pilon M. A Ban on Coed Contact Sports. New York Times. October 1, 2014:B19.

In-text citations

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

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 the Anatomical Society of India
Abbreviation	J. Anat. Soc. India
ISSN (print)	0003-2778
Scope	Anatomy Pathology and Forensic Medicine