How to format your references using the Advances in Digestive Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Digestive Medicine. 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

[1]

Dudukovic MP. Frontiers in reactor engineering. Science 2009;325:698–701.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vetter IR, Wittinghofer A. The guanine nucleotide-binding switch in three dimensions. Science 2001;294:1299–304.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dickie IA, Hurst JM, Bellingham PJ. Comment on “Conspecific negative density dependence and forest diversity.” Science 2012;338:469; author reply 469.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li X, Kind R, Priestley K, Sobolev SV, Tilmann F, Yuan X, et al. Mapping the Hawaiian plume conduit with converted seismic waves. Nature 2000;405:938–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Voit B, Haag R, Appelhans D, Welzel PB. Bio- and Multifunctional Polymer Architectures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Bürgisser P. Condition: The Geometry of Numerical Algorithms. vol. 349. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hadzic F, Tan H, Dillon TS. TMG Framework for Mining Ordered Subtrees. In: Tan H, Dillon TS, editors. Mining of Data with Complex Structures, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 87–138.

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 Advances in Digestive Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Jellyfish Sting Under The Microscope In Slow Motion. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jellyfish-sting-under-microscope-slow-motion/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. University Research: Most Federal Agencies Need to Better Protect against Financial Conflicts of Interest. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tsai C-N. A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Lowry MP. Fire Starter. New York Times 2014:MM54.

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	Advances in Digestive Medicine
Abbreviation	Adv. Dig. Med.
ISSN (print)	2351-9797
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