How to format your references using the Annals of Anatomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Banks, M., 2007. Seeking a PhD abroad. Nature 445, 680.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wilson, L., Head, J.W., Iii, 2007. An integrated model of kimberlite ascent and eruption. Nature 447, 53–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

French, S., Lekic, V., Romanowicz, B., 2013. Waveform tomography reveals channeled flow at the base of the oceanic asthenosphere. Science 342, 227–230.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Flood, A.H., Stoddart, J.F., Steuerman, D.W., Heath, J.R., 2004. Chemistry. Whence molecular electronics? Science 306, 2055–2056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cherian, A., 2015. Energy and Global Climate Change. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Proper, H.A., Aveiro, D., Gaaloul, K. (Eds.), 2013. Advances in Enterprise Engineering VII: Third Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2013, Luxembourg, May 13-14, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen, D.-G., Chen, X., Lin, F., 2015. Solving Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems with Moore–Penrose Generalized Inverse Matrix Method to Extract Longitudinal Characteristics from Cross-Sectional Survey Data, in: Chen, D.-G. (din), Wilson, J. (Eds.), Innovative Statistical Methods for Public Health Data, ICSA Book Series in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 81–94.

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 Annals of Anatomy.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Grow Mini Brains From Patient Skin Cells [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-grow-mini-brains-patient-skin-cells/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Federal Air Marshal Service: Additional Actions Needed to Ensure Air Marshals’ Mission Readiness (No. GAO-16-764). 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

Do, N.H., 2012. An examination of support systems to enable Vietnamese immigrants to acquire English skills (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Friday File. New York Times C30.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Banks, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Banks, 2007; Wilson and Head, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Wilson and Head, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Flood et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Anatomy
Abbreviation	Ann. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0940-9602
Scope	Developmental Biology General Medicine Anatomy