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

Haff PK. Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature. 2000 Nov 9;408(6809):159–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cantó C, Auwerx J. Cell biology. FGF21 takes a fat bite. Science. 2012 May 11;336(6082):675–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cusick RD, Kim Y, Logan BE. Energy capture from thermolytic solutions in microbial reverse-electrodialysis cells. Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1474–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Auslaender OM, Steinberg H, Yacoby A, Tserkovnyak Y, Halperin BI, Baldwin KW, et al. Spin-charge separation and localization in one dimension. Science. 2005 Apr 1;308(5718):88–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Patterson SJ, Radtke JM. Strategic Communications for Nonprofit Organizations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Reinhard T, Larkin F, editors. Cornea and External Eye Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. XX, 234 p. 206 illus., 103 illus. in color. (Essentials in Ophthalmology).

A chapter in an edited book

Chen L, Ye Y, Zhang J. A Note on Equilibrium Pricing as Convex Optimization. In: Deng X, Graham FC, editors. Internet and Network Economics: Third International Workshop, WINE 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, December 12-14, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 7–16. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Stunning Images Of Baby Brains Will Map Out How The Brain Develops. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/stunning-images-of-baby-brains-will-map-out-how-the-brain-develops/

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 Agencies’ Contracting for Research and Development in the Private, Profitmaking Sector. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: PSAD-77-66.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ray RT. Utilization of a Clinical Reminder System to Increase the Incidence of HIV Screening in a Primary Care Clinic [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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

Saslow L. List of Weak Schools Claims 2, Removes One. New York Times. 2007 Mar 25;14LI2.

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
Scope