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

Scodeggio M. Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation. Science. 2001;294(5542):537-538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burch CL, Chao L. Evolvability of an RNA virus is determined by its mutational neighbourhood. Nature. 2000;406(6796):625-628.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfleiderer C, Julian SR, Lonzarich GG. Non-Fermi-liquid nature of the normal state of itinerant-electron ferromagnets. Nature. 2001;414(6862):427-430.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Melyan Z, Tarttelin EE, Bellingham J, Lucas RJ, Hankins MW. Addition of human melanopsin renders mammalian cells photoresponsive. Nature. 2005;433(7027):741-745.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sauter M. From GSM to LTE-Advanced. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Yakhno T, ed. Advances in Information Systems: Third International Conference, ADVIS 2004, Izmir, Turkey, October 20-22, 2004. Proceedings. Vol 3261. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Balen A. Polycystic Ovary Versus Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. In: Dunaif A, Chang RJ, Franks S, Legro RS, eds. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Current Controversies, From The Ovary To The Pancreas. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana Press; 2008:37-49.

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

Davis J. No, This Survey Does Not Show That How Much Porn Men Watch Is Linked To Sexual Dysfunction. IFLScience. Published May 16, 2017. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-this-survey-does-not-show-that-how-much-porn-men-watch-is-linked-to-sexual-dysfunction/

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. Aviation Competition: Information on the Department of Transportation’s Proposed Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wester AM. Readers’ Trust, Socio-Demographic, and Acuity Influences in Citizen Journalism Credibility for Disrupted Online Newspapers. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2013.

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. Elegies for a Homeless Man By Friends He Left Behind. New York Times. April 15, 2001:147.

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

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