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]

Pearson PN. Paleoclimate. Increased atmospheric CO₂ during the Middle Eocene. Science 2010;330:763–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ingolia NT, Murray AW. Signal transduction. History matters. Science 2002;297:948–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Maharana C, Sharma KP, Sharma SK. Feedback mechanism in depolarization-induced sustained activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the hippocampus. Sci Rep 2013;3:1103.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Sanvitto D, Pulizzi F, Shields AJ, Christianen PC, Holmes SN, Simmons MY, et al. Observation of charge transport by negatively charged excitons. Science 2001;294:837–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Glaser R. Symmetry, Spectroscopy, and Crystallography. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

McCaffrey RJ, Bauer L, Palav AA, O’Bryant SE, editors. Practitioner’s Guide to Symptom Base Rates in the General Population. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bosse T, Sharpanskykh A, Treur J. Integrating Agent Models and Dynamical Systems. In: Baldoni M, Son TC, Riemsdijk MB van, Winikoff M, editors. Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies V: 5th International Workshop, DALT 2007, Honolulu, HI, USA, May 14, 2007, Revised Selected and Invited Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 50–68.

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. Western Australia Will Not Continue Shark Cull. IFLScience 2014.

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. Native Hawaiian Education Act: Greater Oversight Would Increase Accountability and Enable Targeting of Funds to Areas with Greatest Need. 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]

Shendge PN. Improvement in Estimation of Carrier Frequency Offset in Wireless Networks. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Walsh MW. Treasury Hid A.I.G. Loss, Report Says. New York Times 2010:B1.

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