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

McCabe H (2000) France sets up elite Internet school. Nature 405:381

A journal article with 2 authors

Bozic I, Nowak MA (2013) Cancer. Unwanted evolution. Science 342:938–939

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang YV, Ni J, Montell C (2013) The molecular basis for attractive salt-taste coding in Drosophila. Science 340:1334–1338

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lawler MJ, Fujita K, Lee J, et al (2010) Intra-unit-cell electronic nematicity of the high-T(c) copper-oxide pseudogap states. Nature 466:347–351

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broome J (2017) Weighing Goods. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Imanishi N, Luntz AC, Bruce P (2014) The Lithium Air Battery: Fundamentals. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Rager O, Becker M, Beer AJ (2013) Head and Neck Cancers. In: Ratib O, Schwaiger M, Beyer T (eds) Atlas of PET/MR Imaging in Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 43–60

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) How To Tell If Someone Is A Psychopath. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-you-really-tell-if-someone-psychopath/. 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 (2001) Aviation Competition: Regional Jet Service Yet to Reach Many Small Communities. 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

Allard IN (2010) Examining the relationship between organizational culture and performance: Moderators of culture gap. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Ukraine: Former Aide Cites Corruption. New York Times A11

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

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