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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Karoly DJ. Atmospheric science. Ozone and climate change. Science. 2003;302(5643):236-237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson D, Sawers G. Structural biology. PMF through the redox loop. Science. 2002;295(5561):1842-1843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chouard T, Weiss U, Dhand R. Good “omics” for the poor? Nature. 2002;419(6906):489.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Carpenter SR, DeFries R, Dietz T, et al. Ecology. Millennium ecosystem assessment: research needs. Science. 2006;314(5797):257-258.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhu FXX, Hoehn R, Thakkar V, Yuh E. Hydroprocessing for Clean Energy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Wang J, Yi Z, Zurada JM, Lu BL, Yin H, eds. Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2006: Third International Symposium on Neural Networks, Chengdu, China, May 28 - June 1, 2006, Proceedings, Part I. Vol 3971. Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

González ON, de Noya BA, Robertson LJ. Epidemiological Factors Related to Foodborne Transmission of Chagas Disease. In: González O, Robertson LJ, eds. Trypanosoma Cruzi as a Foodborne Pathogen. SpringerBriefs in Food, Health, and Nutrition. Springer International Publishing; 2015:41-51.

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

Fang J. Glowing Mice Reveal Where Quantum Dots Go. IFLScience. May 14, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/glowing-mice-reveal-where-quantum-dots-go/

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 Resources: Problems Persist in Justice’s ADP Management and Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clemons BL. A Correlational Study of the Ventures for Excellence Interview-Rating System and First Year Teacher Evaluations. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University; 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

Anderson J. Rescuing a Film Rarity, Frame by Frame. New York Times. September 25, 2016:AR12.

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