How to format your references using the Annual Review of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review 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	Download the output style file
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

Wirth BD. 2007. Materials science. How does radiation damage materials? Science. 318(5852):923–24

A journal article with 2 authors

Griffith SC, Montgomerie R. 2003. Evolutionary biology: Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation? Nature. 422(6934):833; discussion 833-4

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharp DJ, Rogers GC, Scholey JM. 2000. Microtubule motors in mitosis. Nature. 407(6800):41–47

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Min J-J, Huo X-L, Xiang L-Y, et al. 2014. Protective effect of Dl-3n-butylphthalide on learning and memory impairment induced by chronic intermittent hypoxia-hypercapnia exposure. Sci. Rep. 4:5555

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Katsilambros N, Kanaka-Gantenbein C, Liatis S, et al. 2011. Diabetic Emergencies. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Komorowski J, ed. 2011. ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. XVI, 973 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Li W, Zou Z. 2015. Cross-Reactivity. In Allergy Bioinformatics, ed A Tao, E Raz, pp. 67–92. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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 Annual Review of Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Earthquakes Can Trigger Aftershocks In Faults Hundreds Of Kilometers Away. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2001. Restructuring of the District of Columbia Department of Public Works’ Division of Transportation. GAO-01-347R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eskridge RD. 2012. Municipal government: Does institutional structural reform make a difference in local government? Doctoral dissertation thesis. Mississippi State University

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

Bray C, Corkery M. 2017. Citigroup Said to Open Frankfurt Hub in Post-‘Brexit’ Move. New York Times, July 19, p. B3

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	Annual Review of Medicine
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Med.
ISSN (print)	0066-4219
ISSN (online)	1545-326X
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine