How to format your references using the Sanidad Militar citation style

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

Christensen PR. Formation of recent martian gullies through melting of extensive water-rich snow deposits. Nature. 2003 Mar 6;422(6927):45–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mogilner A, Oster G. Cell biology. Shrinking gels pull cells. Science. 2003 Nov 21;302(5649):1340–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bayley PJ, Frascino JC, Squire LR. Robust habit learning in the absence of awareness and independent of the medial temporal lobe. Nature. 2005 Jul 28;436(7050):550–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sancak Y, Peterson TR, Shaul YD, Lindquist RA, Thoreen CC, Bar-Peled L, et al. The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1. Science. 2008 Jun 13;320(5882):1496–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu K. Materials in Energy Conversion, Harvesting, and Storage. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Kaskutas LA, Galanter M, editors. Recent Developments in Alcoholism: Research on Alcoholics Anonymous and Spirituality in Addiction Recovery. New York, NY: Springer; 2008. XXVI, 450 p. 22 illus. (Recent Developments in Alcoholism; vol. 18).

A chapter in an edited book

Liu C, Fang Z, Li J. Practices, Experience and Policy Orientation for Free Education in Normal Universities in China. In: Zhu X, Zeichner K, editors. Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 67–76. (New Frontiers of Educational Research).

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 Sanidad Militar.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. New 3D Model Illustrates Death Throes of Supernovae. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-3d-model-illustrates-death-throes-supernovae/

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. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Strategic Planning Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs across Multiple Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jan. Report No.: GAO-12-108.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wiedeman LD. Acceptance promoting and hindering interactions in integrative behavioral couple therapy [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

Williams J. A Quiet Member of the Canon. New York Times. 2017 Oct 20;BR6.

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	Sanidad Militar
ISSN (print)	1887-8571
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