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

Macilwain C. Inadequate optics “threat to US laser facility.” Nature. 2000 Jan 13;403(6766):120.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang J, Reth M. Oligomeric organization of the B-cell antigen receptor on resting cells. Nature. 2010 Sep 23;467(7314):465–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baum DA, Smith SD, Donovan SSS. Evolution. The tree-thinking challenge. Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):979–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu C, Hu W, Wu H, Hu X. No evident dose-response relationship between cellular ROS level and its cytotoxicity--a paradoxical issue in ROS-based cancer therapy. Sci Rep. 2014 May 22;4:5029.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kurimoto N, Fielding DIK, Musani AI. Endobronchial Ultrasonography. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Chakraborty T, editor. Charge Migration in DNA: Perspectives from Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XVIII, 288 p. (NanoScience and Technology).

A chapter in an edited book

Quinn K, Ingram AJ, Hart RG. Anticoagulation in CKD. In: Goldsmith D, Covic A, Spaak J, editors. Cardio-Renal Clinical Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 29–39.

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

Fang J. New Frog Species Discovered in New York City. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Assessment of the Explanation That Immigration and Customs Enforcement Provided for Its Subsequent Transfer from the Spectrum Relocation Fund. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Sep. Report No.: GAO-08-846R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Creed CK. Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Higgins A. Putin Butts In to Claim There Were No Secrets, And Says He’ll Prove It. New York Times. 2017 May 17;A16.

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

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