How to format your references using the Sanamed citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sanamed. 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

Nadis S. The sky’s the limit as radio telescope array is approved. Nature 2000;406(6797):665–666.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmidt M, Lipson H. Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data. Science 2009;324(5923):81–85.

A journal article with 3 authors

Farihi J, Gänsicke BT, Koester D. Evidence for water in the rocky debris of a disrupted extrasolar minor planet. Science 2013;342(6155):218–220.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ueda K, Ishikawa N, Tatsuguchi A, Saichi N, Fujii R, Nakagawa H. Antibody-coupled monolithic silica microtips for highthroughput molecular profiling of circulating exosomes. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6232.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen G, Wang X, Li X. Fundamentals of Complex Networks. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Connelly R, Ivić Weiss A, Whiteley W, eds. Rigidity and Symmetry. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu X, Li X. Conclusion and Future Directions. In: Li X, ed. Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Networks. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. New York, NY: Springer; 2013:73–75.

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 Sanamed.

Blog post

Andrew E. Could Plastic “Lego” Roads Pave The Way To A Greener Future? IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/could-plastic-lego-roads-pave-way-greener-future/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Competition Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Francis TM. The Lived Experience of Caribbean Women and Their Experiences as Senior-Level Leaders: A Phenomenological Study. 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

Soloski A. In Two Israeli Plays, Peace Is Forever Receding. New York Times. July 26, 2017:C3.

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	Sanamed
ISSN (print)	1452-662X
ISSN (online)	2217-8171
Scope