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

Türler A. Nuclear chemistry: Lawrencium bridges a knowledge gap. Nature. 2015 Apr 9;520(7546):166–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aussillous P, Quéré D. Liquid marbles. Nature. 2001 Jun 21;411(6840):924–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carslaw KS, Harrison RG, Kirkby J. Cosmic rays, clouds, and climate. Science. 2002 Nov 29;298(5599):1732–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhang YJ, Han W, Xia YJ, Cao JP, Fan H. Quantum speed limit for arbitrary initial states. Sci Rep. 2014 May 8;4:4890.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levy G, Levin B. The Biostatistics of Aging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Palazzo D. Urban Ecological Design: A Process for Regenerative Places. Steiner F, editor. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012. XXIII, 300 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bergel A, Bettini L. Generic Programming in Pharo. In: Cordeiro J, Hammoudi S, Sinderen M van, editors. Software and Data Technologies: 7th International Conference, ICSOFT 2012, Rome, Italy, July 24-27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 66–79. (Communications in Computer and Information Science).

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

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. The Weirdest Sex Laws From Around The World. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-weirdest-sex-laws-from-around-the-world/

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. School Dropouts: Education Could Play a Stronger Role in Identifying and Disseminating Promising Prevention Strategies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Feb. Report No.: GAO-02-240.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dhah S. The relationship between job-embedded professional development and special education teacher self-efficacy in hard-to-staff middle schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2015.

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

Hubbard B, Saad H. Dozens Killed As Blast Hits Bus Convoy In Syria. New York Times. 2017 Apr 15;A7.

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