How to format your references using the Acta Medica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Medica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Kuypers MMM. Microbiology: A division of labour combined. Nature. 2015 Dec 24;528(7583):487–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelton JN, Logsdon J. Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Science. 2008 Apr 11;320(5873):189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nadler JW, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC. A neural representation of depth from motion parallax in macaque visual cortex. Nature. 2008 Apr 3;452(7187):642–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wachter S, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Dwarkadas VV, Kouveliotou C, Granot J, Patel SK, et al. An infrared ring around the magnetar SGR 1900+14. Nature. 2008 May 29;453(7195):626–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brown BL, Hendrix SB, Hedges DW, Smith TB. Multivariate Analysis for the Biobehavioral and Social Sciences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Ginsburgh V, Weber S, editors. The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. XXIII, 748 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Cheng J, Lu H. Local Structure Preserving Based Subspace Analysis Methods and Applications. In: Chen YW, C. Jain L, editors. Subspace Methods for Pattern Recognition in Intelligent Environment. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 105–21. (Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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 Acta Medica.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. 10 Bizarre Human Behaviors That Have Little Explanation. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-bizarre-human-behaviors-have-little-explanation/

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. Attack Warning: NORAD’s Communications System Segment Replacement Program Should Be Reassessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Nov. Report No.: IMTEC-89-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Guillory MK. An Analysis of Corporal Punishment Practices in the State of Tennessee [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 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

Vecsey G. Fans in Green and Blue Give Life to Drab Stadium. New York Times. 2010 Aug 17;B10.

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	Acta Medica
Abbreviation	Acta Medica (Hradec Kralove)
ISSN (print)	1211-4286
Scope	General Medicine