How to format your references using the Apollo Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Apollo 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

Eisenberg L. Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature. 2000;406(6795):472.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xie J, Black DL. A CaMK IV responsive RNA element mediates depolarization-induced alternative splicing of ion channels. Nature. 2001;410(6831):936-939.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seidenberg MS, MacDonald MC, Saffran JR. Neuroscience. Does grammar start where statistics stop? Science. 2002;298(5593):553-554.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huertas P, Cortés-Ledesma F, Sartori AA, Aguilera A, Jackson SP. CDK targets Sae2 to control DNA-end resection and homologous recombination. Nature. 2008;455(7213):689-692.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman NP. Troubleshooting Vacuum Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Wang JG. Financing without Bank Loans: New Alternatives for Funding SMEs in China. (Yang J, ed.). Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian X, Cheng Y. AOM-Assisted Zapping Acceleration for IPTV. In: Cheng Y, ed. Scalable Multicasting over Next-Generation Internet: Design, Analysis and Applications. Springer; 2013:103-130.

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 Apollo Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. The Universe Isn’t Accelerating As Fast As We Thought. IFLScience. April 14, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supernova-division-rewrites-universes-acceleration/

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. Weather Forecasting: Improvements Needed in Laboratory Software Development Processes. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma D. Acyclic Congeners of Cucurbit[n]Uril and a Related Mechanistic Study on the Cucurbit[n]Uril Forming Reaction. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

Hamilton JM, Kosar KR. All the President’s Propaganda. New York Times. December 12, 2016:A21.

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	Apollo Medicine
ISSN (print)	0976-0016
Scope