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]

Bender E. Developing world: Global warning. Nature 2014;509:S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Huybers P, Curry W. Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability. Nature 2006;441:329–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tingley MW, Estes LD, Wilcove DS. Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course. Nature 2013;500:271–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kroutvar M, Ducommun Y, Heiss D, Bichler M, Schuh D, Abstreiter G, et al. Optically programmable electron spin memory using semiconductor quantum dots. Nature 2004;432:81–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Paultre P. Dynamics of Structures. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Gallucci M. Radiographic Atlas of Skull and Brain Anatomy. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yamaguchi M, Miura T. Incremental Patterns in Text Search. In: Zavoral F, Jung JJ, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing VII: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing - IDC 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2013, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 23–30.

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]

Luntz S. What Would Happen If You Fell Into a Black Hole? IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-happens-if-you-fall-black-hole/ (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. Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle: Action Needed to Improve Visibility into Cost, Schedule, and Capacity to Resolve Technical Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Manjounes CK. An adult accelerated degree program: Student and instructor perspectives and factors that affect retention. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2010.

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]

Philipps D, Hubbard B. U.S. Soldier Who Survived Fatal Attack by a Jordanian Tells His Story. New York Times 2017:A6.

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

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