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

Bohannon J. Artificial intelligence. The synthetic therapist. Science 2015;349(6245):250–251.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schirle NT, MacRae IJ. The crystal structure of human Argonaute2. Science 2012;336(6084):1037–1040.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conway SL, Shinbrot T, Glasser BJ. A Taylor vortex analogy in granular flows. Nature 2004;431(7007):433–437.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Busche MA, Eichhoff G, Adelsberger H, Abramowski D, Wiederhold K-H, Haass C, et al. Clusters of hyperactive neurons near amyloid plaques in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. Science 2008;321(5896):1686–1689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi FJ, Kothari V. Introduction to Securitization. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Chakraborty A. Emotional Intelligence: A Cybernetic Approach. (Konar A, ed.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Horita M. When an Electronic Citizen Forum Works and When Not: An Organisational Analysis of the Mitaka Master Plan Process. In: Horita M, Koizumi H, eds. Innovations in Collaborative Urban Regeneration. cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2009:53–66.

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. Heat-Seeking “Grenades” Attack Cancer Cells. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heat-seeking-grenades-attack-cancer-cells/. 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. NATO: A Changing Alliance Faces New Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Verkaik P. Enhancing networking protocols in widely deployed devices. 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

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions. New York Times. February 25, 2016:B1.

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