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]

Beard C. Paleontology. East of Eden at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. Science 2002;295:2028–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dietrich WE, Perron JT. The search for a topographic signature of life. Nature 2006;439:411–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chandra P, Coleman P, Flint R. Hastatic order in the heavy-fermion compound URu2Si2. Nature 2013;493:621–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Naveiras O, Nardi V, Wenzel PL, Hauschka PV, Fahey F, Daley GQ. Bone-marrow adipocytes as negative regulators of the haematopoietic microenvironment. Nature 2009;460:259–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bécherrawy T. Electromagnetism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Naumenko K, Aßmus M, editors. Advanced Methods of Continuum Mechanics for Materials and Structures. vol. 60. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Assi A, García-Sánchez PA. Minimal Presentations. In: García-Sánchez PA, editor. Numerical Semigroups and Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 69–83.

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. The World’s Most Spoken Languages And Where They Are Spoken. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-most-spoken-languages-and-where-they-are-spoken/ (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. Status of Implementation of GAO Recommendations on Evacuation of Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations and Patients and Residents of Health Care Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Layer BD. Structured plasma waveguides and deep EUV generation enabled by intense laser-cluster interactions. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

Greenhouse L. Supreme Court to Weigh Award in a Smoker’s Death. New York Times 2006:C3.

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
Scope