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

Rees J. Complex disease and the new clinical sciences. Science. 2002;296(5568):698-700.

A journal article with 2 authors

Könneker C, Lugger B. History of science. Public Science 2.0--back to the future. Science. 2013;342(6154):49-50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fitch JP, Raber E, Imbro DR. Technology challenges in responding to biological or chemical attacks in the civilian sector. Science. 2003;302(5649):1350-1354.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang Q, Gao P, Wang X, Duan Y. The early diagnosis and monitoring of squamous cell carcinoma via saliva metabolomics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6802.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cotarca L, Eckert H. Phosgenations - A Handbook. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Calude CS, Hagiya M, Morita K, Rozenberg G, Timmis J, eds. Unconventional Computation: 9th International Conference, US 2010, Tokyo, Japan, June 21-25, 2010. Proceedings. Vol 6079. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

El-Habr HN, Hutchinson M. Efforts of regional and international organisations in reducing levels of pollution in the Gulf. In: Abuzinada AH, Barth HJ, Krupp F, Böer B, Abdessalaam TZA, eds. Protecting the Gulf’s Marine Ecosystems from Pollution. Birkhäuser; 2008:93-106.

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

Andrew E. Volcanoes May Have Heated Mars To Make Liquid Water Possible. 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. Federal Regulatory Policies. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mohajer R. A Transcendental Approach to John Coltrane: Applying Concepts of Spirituality to Giant Steps into the Cosmos. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Medina J, Pérez-Peña R, Schmidt MS, Goodstein L. Arms Stockpile Is Found in Home of Two Suspects. New York Times. December 3, 2015:A1.

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

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