How to format your references using the Translational Research in Anatomy citation style

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

[1]

S. Bhattacharya, Science in court: Disease detectives, Nature 506 (2014) 424–426.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.P. Balskus, C.T. Walsh, The genetic and molecular basis for sunscreen biosynthesis in cyanobacteria, Science 329 (2010) 1653–1656.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Schmitz, J. Mellor, R.A. Nicoll, Presynaptic kainate receptor mediation of frequency facilitation at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses, Science 291 (2001) 1972–1976.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. May, S. Rivella, J. Callegari, G. Heller, K.M. Gaensler, L. Luzzatto, M. Sadelain, Therapeutic haemoglobin synthesis in beta-thalassaemic mice expressing lentivirus-encoded human beta-globin, Nature 406 (2000) 82–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. Moir, A.G. Seabridge, Military Avionics Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Ferrari, L. Vuletic, eds., The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education: Essays in Honor of Robbie Case, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K.R. Alugupalli, A Distinct Role for B1b Lymphocytes in T Cell-Independent Immunity, in: T. Manser (Ed.), Specialization and Complementation of Humoral Immune Responses to Infection, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 105–130.

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 Translational Research in Anatomy.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Secret Meeting Of Scientists To Discuss Creating Synthetic Human Genome Fuels Speculation, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Spanish Version), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.A. Obakhume, An aftercare program for female survivors of domestic abuse: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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

[1]

M. Paulson, The Musical That Toppled a Confederate Statue, New York Times (2017) C4.

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	Translational Research in Anatomy
ISSN (print)	2214-854X
Scope