How to format your references using the Alexandria Journal of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Alexandria Journal of 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

Zheludev NI. Applied physics. The road ahead for metamaterials. Science. 2010;328(5978):582-583.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fan QR, Hendrickson WA. Structure of human follicle-stimulating hormone in complex with its receptor. Nature. 2005;433(7023):269-277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sinsabaugh RL, Hill BH, Follstad Shah JJ. Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment. Nature. 2009;462(7274):795-798.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gange AC, Gange EG, Sparks TH, Boddy L. Rapid and recent changes in fungal fruiting patterns. Science. 2007;316(5821):71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rich P. Understanding, Assessing, and Rehabilitating Juvenile Sexual Offenders. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Wiesel SW, Delahay JN, eds. Essentials of Orthopedic Surgery. Third Edition. Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Mariotti M. Selenocysteine Extinctions in Insects. In: Raman C, Goldsmith MR, Agunbiade TA, eds. Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics: Insect Proteomics, Vol.2. Entomology in Focus. Springer International Publishing; 2016:113-140.

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 Alexandria Journal of Medicine.

Blog post

Fang J. A New Parasite Is Infecting Tadpoles Across Three Continents. IFLScience.

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

Government Accountability Office. Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Korean Version). U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Libman M. A Policy Analysis of the Penal Code Section 186.20-186.33: California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act. 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

Crow K. Selling Tea as Serenity, Not Snobbery. New York Times. October 1, 2000:144.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Alexandria Journal of Medicine
ISSN (print)	2090-5068
Scope