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

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

Gibson, G. (2014) Cancer: Directions for the drivers. Nature, 512, 31–32.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim, J. & Holtzman, D.M. (2010) Medicine. Prion-like behavior of amyloid-beta. Science (New York, N.Y.), 330, 918–919.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jansens, A., van Duijn, E. & Braakman, I. (2002) Coordinated nonvectorial folding in a newly synthesized multidomain protein. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298, 2401–2403.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu, H., Tieu, A.K., Lu, C., Liu, X., Godbole, A., Li, H., et al. (2014) A deformation mechanism of hard metal surrounded by soft metal during roll forming. Scientific Reports, 4, 5017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reinke, P. (2012) Inorganic Nanostructures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Chuvieco, E. (ed.) (2009) Earth Observation of Wildland Fires in Mediterranean Ecosystems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Benesty, J., Chen, J., Huang, Y. & Cohen, I. (2009) Pearson Correlation Coefficient. In: Huang, Y., Chen, J., & Benesty, J. (Eds.) Noise Reduction in Speech Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Springer Topics in Signal Processing), pp. 1–4.

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 Journal of Anatomy.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Researchers Closer To Using Light Instead of Wires In Computers. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/researchers-closer-using-optics-instead-wires-computers/. Accessed 30 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 (2006) Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. (GAO-07-146SP). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Qin, R. (2008) Mid -ocean ridge morphology and tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling of faults and dikes. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia 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

Koblin, J. & Shea, C.D. (2017) Outing of ‘Survivor’ Contestant That Set Off an Uproar Was Shot Months Ago. New York Times, 13 April, p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson, 2014; Kim & Holtzman, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kim & Holtzman, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Anatomy
ISSN (print)	0021-8782
ISSN (online)	1469-7580
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