How to format your references using the Cirujano General citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cirujano General. 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 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

Smith AB. Paleontology. Making the best of a patchy fossil record. Science. 2003 Jul 18;301(5631):321–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Münck E, Bominaar EL. Chemistry. Bringing stability to highly reduced iron-sulfur clusters. Science. 2008 Sep 12;321(5895):1452–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun B, Munroe P, Wang G. Ruthenium nanocrystals as cathode catalysts for lithium-oxygen batteries with a superior performance. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2247.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Knowles TP, Fitzpatrick AW, Meehan S, Mott HR, Vendruscolo M, Dobson CM, et al. Role of intermolecular forces in defining material properties of protein nanofibrils. Science. 2007 Dec 21;318(5858):1900–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

MacIsaac B, Langton R. Gas Turbine Propulsion Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Chiang RPY, Kang SC (jessy), editors. Introduction to Modern Sleep Technology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XXIV, 296 p. (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering; vol. 64).

A chapter in an edited book

Riedl R, Léger PM. Establishing and Operating a NeuroIS Lab. In: Léger PM, editor. Fundamentals of NeuroIS: Information Systems and the Brain. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 99–115. (Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics).

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 Cirujano General.

Blog post

Davis J. Japan Set to Restart Whaling This Year [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/japan-asked-more-evidence-justify-whale-hunt/

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. Highway Demonstration Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Aug. Report No.: RCED-93-193R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ashrafzadeh MH. Provision of community services for the mentally challenged population in Iran [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

Chira S. Women Interrupted. New York Times. 2017 Jun 15;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Cirujano General
ISSN (print)	1405-0099
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