How to format your references using the American Journal of Gastroenterology Supplements citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Gastroenterology Supplements. 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

Hyman S. Mental health: depression needs large human-genetics studies. Nature 2014;515:189–191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jansen VAA, Baalen M van. Altruism through beard chromodynamics. Nature 2006;440:663–666.

A journal article with 3 authors

Erez E, Fass D, Bibi E. How intramembrane proteases bury hydrolytic reactions in the membrane. Nature 2009;459:371–378.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ni M, Zhang W-Z, Qiu J-R, et al. Association of ERCC1 and ERCC2 polymorphisms with colorectal cancer risk in a Chinese population. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:4112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beaumont WRC. Electricity in fish research and management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Handbook of Biomedical Image Analysis: Volume I: Segmentation Models Part A. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhattacharyya S, Maulik U. Binary Object Extraction by Bidirectional Self-Organizing Neural Network Architecture. In: Maulik U, editor(s). Soft Computing for Image and Multimedia Data Processing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 109–158.

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 American Journal of Gastroenterology Supplements.

Blog post

Fang J. Why Are Humans So Afraid Of Spiders? IFLScience 2015;[cited 2018 Oct 30]

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 Research and Development: FAA Could Improve How It Develops Its Portfolio and Reports Its Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grace J. A Correlational Study of the Relationship Between TEAS V and Success in Licensed Practical Nursing Students. 2017;

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

Greenhouse L. Justices Turn Aside Case of Man Accusing C.I.A. of Torture. New York Times 2007;A20.

In-text citations

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

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	American Journal of Gastroenterology Supplements
Abbreviation	Am. J. Gastroenterol. Suppl.
ISSN (print)	1948-9498
ISSN (online)	1948-9501
Scope