How to format your references using the Advances in Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Medical Sciences. 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 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]

Frierson DMW. Atmospheric science. Frictional dissipation--blame it on the rain. Science 2012;335:925–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Scott GR, Gibert L. The oldest hand-axes in Europe. Nature 2009;461:82–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pierce JL, Meyer GA, Jull AJT. Fire-induced erosion and millennial-scale climate change in northern ponderosa pine forests. Nature 2004;432:87–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

McLean DL, Fan J, Higashijima S-I, Hale ME, Fetcho JR. A topographic map of recruitment in spinal cord. Nature 2007;446:71–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Klir GJ. Uncertainty and Information. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Qi J, Evered KT, editors. Environmental Problems of Central Asia and their Economic, Social and Security Impacts. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Askari A, Mangwani J. Trauma and Orthopedic Emergencies. In: Shergill I, Arya M, Upile T, Arya N, Dasgupta P, editors. Surgical Emergencies in Clinical Practice, London: Springer; 2013, p. 53–71.

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 Medical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Clumps Of Alzheimer’s-Associated Molecule Found In Young Adult Brains. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/clumps-alzheimers-associated-molecule-found-young-adult-brains/ (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: U.S. Reimbursement of Tuition Costs for University Employee Family Members. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Castro R. Faculty unions and their effects on university shared governance. 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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Belarus: New Law Restricts Religions. New York Times 2002:A7.

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 Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1896-1126
Scope	General Medicine