How to format your references using the Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy citation style

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

Sarewitz D (2010) Better all the time. Nature 463:607

A journal article with 2 authors

Prives C, Lowe SW (2015) Cancer: Mutant p53 and chromatin regulation. Nature 525:199–200

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman KL, Abarbanel HDI, Kristan WB Jr (2005) Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making. Science 307:896–901

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wright CF, Teichmann SA, Clarke J, Dobson CM (2005) The importance of sequence diversity in the aggregation and evolution of proteins. Nature 438:878–881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hecht J (2008) Understanding Lasers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fischer X, Daidie A, Eynard B, Paredes M (2016) Research in Interactive Design (Vol. 4): Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Voss P (2007) Essentials of General Intelligence: The Direct Path to Artificial General Intelligence. In: Goertzel B, Pennachin C (eds) Artificial General Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 131–157

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 Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Audi Has Made Diesel From Water And Carbon Dioxide. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/audi-make-diesel-water-and-carbon-dioxide/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) Standards and Technology: Impact of Fee Increases on Measurement Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cai S (2008) 3D Numerical Modeling of Dry/Wet Contact Mechanics for Rough, Multilayered Elastic-Plastic Solid Surfaces and Effects of Hydrophilicity/Hydrophobicity During Separation with Applications. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Barron J (2017) A ‘Triumphant Return’ for a Church’s 17th-Century Tapestries. New York Times A21

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy
Abbreviation	Surg. Radiol. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0930-1038
ISSN (online)	1279-8517
Scope	Anatomy Pathology and Forensic Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Surgery