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]

von Andrian UH. Immunology. T cell activation in six dimensions. Science 2002;296:1815–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rohrbach A, Schmidt MW. Redox freezing and melting in the Earth’s deep mantle resulting from carbon-iron redox coupling. Nature 2011;472:209–12.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Beldade P, Brakefield PM, Long AD. Contribution of Distal-less to quantitative variation in butterfly eyespots. Nature 2002;415:315–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xiang G, Wang Y-G, Li J, Zhuang J, Wang X. Surface-specific interaction by structure-match confined pure high-energy facet of unstable TiO₂(B) polymorph. Sci Rep 2013;3:1411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Degner R, Leibl S. pH messen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Smith D. Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chesdachai S, Tangpricha V. Vitamin D Deficiency in Anorexia Nervosa. In: Tangpricha V, editor. Vitamin D: A Clinical Casebook, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 25–31.

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]

Fang J. Spider Masquerades As Bird Poo. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spider-masquerades-bird-poo/ (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. Medical Education: Curriculum and Financing Strategies Need to Encourage Primary Care Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Kent L. Justification-Suppression of Gender and Race Bias in Hiring: The Impact of Accountability. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 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]

Crow K. A Block of Fabled Theaters May Get an Extended Run. New York Times 2003:147.

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