How to format your references using the Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy citation style

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

Ploehn HJ (2015) Materials science: Composite for energy storage takes the heat. Nature 523:536–537

A journal article with 2 authors

Rohatgi R, Scott MP (2008) Cell biology. Arrestin’ movement in cilia. Science 320:1726–1727

A journal article with 3 authors

Zerbino DR, Paten B, Haussler D (2012) Integrating genomes. Science 336:179–182

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Patrick GN, Zukerberg L, Nikolic M, et al (2001) reply: Neurobiologyp25 protein in neurodegeneration. Nature 411:764–765

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond B (2016) Legal Aspects of Mental Capacity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Thampi SM, Gelbukh A, Mukhopadhyay J (2014) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Vilain C (2007) Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century. In: Laird WR, Roux S (eds) Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 149–172

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 Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Does Your Vulva Hurt? You Could Have Vulvodynia. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Air Force Bombers: Conventional Capabilities of the B-1B Bomber. 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

Oduntan A (2017) The Rheological Study of the Effects of Surfactant and Hydrophilic Bentonite Nano clay on Oil in Water Emulsions for Enhanced Oil Recovery. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Brunnermeier M, James H, Landau J-P (2016) Pondering Franco-German relations anew. New York Times A13

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy
Abbreviation	Surg. Radiol. Anat.
ISSN (print)	0930-1038
ISSN (online)	1279-8517
Scope	Anatomy Pathology and Forensic Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Surgery