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

Powell K. 2007. The places in between. Nature. 446(7138):944–45

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen S-W, Liu R-B. 2014. Faraday rotation echo spectroscopy and detection of quantum fluctuations. Sci. Rep. 4:4695

A journal article with 3 authors

Kortenkamp SJ, Wetherill GW, Inaba S. 2001. Runaway growth of planetary embryos facilitated by massive bodies in a protoplanetary disk. Science. 293(5532):1127–29

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu S, Alapaty K, Mathur R, et al. 2014. Attribution of the United States “warming hole”: aerosol indirect effect and precipitable water vapor. Sci. Rep. 4:6929

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fu F. 2015. Advanced Modelling Techniques in Structural Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Vallecillo A, Gray J, Pierantonio A, eds. 2008. Theory and Practice of Model Transformations: First International Conference, ICMT 2008, Zürich, Switzerland, July 1-2, 2008 Proceedings, Vol. 5063. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XII, 261 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Grace J. 2016. The Amazon Carbon Balance: An Evaluation of Methods and Results. In Interactions Between Biosphere, Atmosphere and Human Land Use in the Amazon Basin, ed L Nagy, BR Forsberg, P Artaxo, pp. 79–100. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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. 2017. NASA Debuts 3D Images Of Mars’ Weird And Wonderful Polar Ice Caps. 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. 1992. EOS Data Policy: Questions Remain About U.S. Commercial Access. IMTEC-92-44, 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

Cook MM. 2017. An Examination of the Proportion of Special Education Students in Single-Parent Homes in Comparison to Regular Education Students in Similar Households. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Lindenwood 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

LISA W. FODERARO; Reporting for this article was contributed by Ford Fessenden, as well as by Kathleen McGrory in Westchester, Akhtar F, et al. 2006. That Sound You Hear? The Market Coming Down to Earth. New York Times, April 2, p. 14NJ6

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