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

Ferry DK. 2012. Applied physics. Ohm’s law in a quantum world. Science. 335(6064):45–46

A journal article with 2 authors

Harris SE, Bellino M. 2013. IBI* series winner. DNA barcoding from NYC to Belize. Science. 342(6165):1462–63

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton MJ, Wills MA, Hitchin R. 2000. Quality of the fossil record through time. Nature. 403(6769):534–37

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Anda FC, Pollarolo G, Da Silva JS, et al. 2005. Centrosome localization determines neuronal polarity. Nature. 436(7051):704–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis TG. 2010. Java® and Mac OS® X. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Andreosso-O’Callaghan B, Royall F, eds. 2013. Economic and Political Change in Asia and Europe: Social Movement Analyses. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. XVIII, 306 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Argyris N, Figueira JR, Morton A. 2011. Interactive Multicriteria Methods in Portfolio Decision Analysis. In Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation, ed A Salo, J Keisler, A Morton, pp. 107–30. New York, NY: 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

Fang J. 2015. New Species of Extinct River Dolphin Discovered in Panama. 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. 2014. Healthcare.gov: Ineffective Planning and Oversight Practices Underscore the Need for Improved Contract Management. GAO-14-694, 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

Shamloo Aliabadi E. 2013. The effect of distortion on trajectory of diesel Particulate Matters (PM) from mobile sources. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Billard M. 2010. Top Hats, Bottom Prices. New York Times, April 15, p. E5

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

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