How to format your references using the Clinical Anatomy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Clinical 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

Vasilyev M. 2015. SIGNAL PROCESSING. Matched filtering of ultrashort pulses. Science 350:1314–1315.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vance V, Vaucheret H. 2001. RNA silencing in plants--defense and counterdefense. Science 292:2277–2280.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin PD, Walsh CT, Magarvey NA. 2007. A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature 448:824–827.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

Sumbre G, Muto A, Baier H, Poo M-M. 2008. Entrained rhythmic activities of neuronal ensembles as perceptual memory of time interval. Nature 456:102–106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mascia L. 2011. Polymers in Industry from A-Z. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Liu Z, Woodcock J, Zhu H, editors. 2013. Unifying Theories of Programming and Formal Engineering Methods: International Training School on Software Engineering, Held at ICTAC 2013, Shanghai, China, August 26-30, 2013, Advanced Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XII, 283 p. 50 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

McIntyre NE, Knowles-Yánez K, Hope D. 2008. Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the use of “Urban” Between the Social and Natural Sciences. In: Marzluff JM, Shulenberger E, Endlicher W, Alberti M, Bradley G, Ryan C, Simon U, ZumBrunnen C, editors. Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature, Boston, MA: Springer US, p 49–65.

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 Clinical Anatomy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2016. Blue Origin Successfully Tests Crew Escape System In Major Step Towards Flying Space Tourists. IFLScience. URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-origin-tests-crew-escape-system-in-major-step-towards-space-tourism/ [accessed October 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. 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shafran RF. 2017.

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

Feeney K. 2009. New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vasilyev, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Vance and Vaucheret, 2001; Vasilyev, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Vance and Vaucheret, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Sumbre et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Clinical Anatomy
Abbreviation	Clin. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0897-3806
ISSN (online)	1098-2353
Scope	General Medicine Anatomy Histology