How to format your references using the Sanidad Militar citation style

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

Snoke D. Spontaneous Bose coherence of excitons and polaritons. Science. 2002 Nov 15;298(5597):1368–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horn PJ, Peterson CL. Molecular biology. Chromatin higher order folding--wrapping up transcription. Science. 2002 Sep 13;297(5588):1824–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghoshal G, Chi L, Barabási AL. Uncovering the role of elementary processes in network evolution. Sci Rep. 2013 Oct 10;3:2920.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Holland ND, Clague DA, Gordon DP, Gebruk A, Pawson DL, Vecchione M. “Lophenteropneust” hypothesis refuted by collection and photos of new deep-sea hemichordates. Nature. 2005 Mar 17;434(7031):374–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison RG. Meteorological Measurements and Instrumentation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Prokop A. Systems Biology in Biotech & Pharma: A Changing Paradigm. Michelson S, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. XVIII, 127 p. 16 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Pharmaceutical Science & Drug Development; vol. 2).

A chapter in an edited book

Greaves M, Ford AM. Chromosome Translocations, Cancer Initiation and Clonal Evolution. In: Rowley JD, Le Beau MM, Rabbitts TH, editors. Chromosomal Translocations and Genome Rearrangements in Cancer. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 53–72.

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 Sanidad Militar.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Using the Power of Evolution to Treat Cancer. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/using-power-evolution-treat-cancer/

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. Rehabilitation Services: Administration of Grants to Human Services Training and Research Council. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jan. Report No.: HRD-86-51FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mustico JP. Perception and preference comparison of managers’ behaviors on sales and non -sales employees: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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

Billard M. Scouting Report. New York Times. 2010 Jul 15;E5.

In-text citations

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

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	Sanidad Militar
ISSN (print)	1887-8571
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