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

Schier AF. The maternal-zygotic transition: death and birth of RNAs. Science. 2007;316(5823):406-407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liberles SD, Buck LB. A second class of chemosensory receptors in the olfactory epithelium. Nature. 2006;442(7103):645-650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baram M, Chatain D, Kaplan WD. Nanometer-thick equilibrium films: the interface between thermodynamics and atomistics. Science. 2011;332(6026):206-209.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Townsend D, Lahankar SA, Lee SK, et al. The roaming atom: straying from the reaction path in formaldehyde decomposition. Science. 2004;306(5699):1158-1161.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambachtsheer KP. The Future of Pension Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Nawrat. M AM, ed. Innovative Control Systems for Tracked Vehicle Platforms. Vol 2. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Bader M, Bayer J. THE MENTAL REPRESENTATION OF CASE. In: Bayer J, ed. CASE AND LINKING IN LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION: Evidence from German. STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS. Springer Netherlands; 2006:115-137.

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. We Have a More Fragile Skeleton Than Our Hunter-Gatherer Ancestors. IFLScience. December 23, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-skeleton-more-fragile-our-ancestors/

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. Federal Family Education Loan Program: Increased Department of Education Oversight of Lender and School Activities Needed to Help Ensure Program Compliance. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hammarsten C. Decorated Heegaard Diagrams and Combinatorial Heegaard Floer Homology. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2015.

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

Hollander S. T, Her Name Is Twindexane. New York Times. March 15, 2009:CY6.

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