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

Feagin R (2009) Journal club. A coastal ecologist sees the hidden effects of hurricanes. Nature 461:319

A journal article with 2 authors

Politi Y, Weaver JC (2015) Biomineralization. Built for tough conditions. Science 347:712–713

A journal article with 3 authors

De Pontieu B, Erdélyi R, James SP (2004) Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows. Nature 430:536–539

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Liu B-H, Wißmann S, Hu X-M, et al (2014) Locality and universality of quantum memory effects. Sci Rep 4:6327

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daries H (2012) Nutrition for Sport and Exercise. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Malmgren K, Baxendale S, Cross JH (2015) Long-Term Outcomes of Epilepsy Surgery in Adults and Children. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Mokam D (2016) US and the Democratic Process in Cameroon from 1990 to 2013. In: Burt S, Añorve DA (eds) Global Perspectives on US Democratization Efforts: From the Outside In. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp 69–88

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

Andrew E (2015) Stephen Hawking Announces $100 Million Pledge To Search For Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life. In: IFLScience. 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 (2009) Aviation Security: TSA Has Completed Key Activities Associated with Implementing Secure Flight, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Mitigate Risks. 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

Payan Venegas R (2012) Factors associated with the lack of a regular health care provider for Latinos: Consequences and reasons. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2010) Inquiry Focuses on White House Role in Preserving Union Pensions at Delphi. New York Times B3

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