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

Stewart I I. Mathematics. A gathering of groups. Nature. 2000;403(6771):719-720.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cha RS, Kleckner N. ATR homolog Mec1 promotes fork progression, thus averting breaks in replication slow zones. Science. 2002;297(5581):602-606.

A journal article with 3 authors

Waelti P, Dickinson A, Schultz W. Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory. Nature. 2001;412(6842):43-48.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chabot JR, Pedraza JM, Luitel P, van Oudenaarden A. Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Nature. 2007;450(7173):1249-1252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis JH. Statistics for Compensation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Mele P, Endo T, Arisawa S, Li C, Tsuchiya T, eds. Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, and Nanocomposites. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramanathan K, Guan SU. Recursive Pattern based Hybrid Supervised Training. In: Abraham A, Grosan C, Pedrycz W, eds. Engineering Evolutionary Intelligent Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer; 2008:129-156.

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

Andrews R. Dinosaur Crater Drilling Project Declared A “Fantastic Success.” IFLScience. Published May 26, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pioneering-effort-drill-through-dinosaur-killing-impact-crater-declared-outstanding/

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. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Cost and Schedule for Major Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Goshin LS. Behavior Problems and Competence in Preschoolers Who Spent Their First One to Eighteen Months in a Prison Nursery Program. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia 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

Kelly C. Decades Later, Revisiting a Death in the Family. New York Times. June 9, 2013:A27B.

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