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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stratt RM. Chemistry. Nonlinear thinking about molecular energy transfer. Science. 2008;321(5897):1789-1790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson AJ, Zon LI. Biomedicine. Love, honor, and protect (your liver). Science. 2003;299(5608):835-837.

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi WY, Giraldez AJ, Schier AF. Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430. Science. 2007;318(5848):271-274.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Barthes J, Bouhelier A, Dereux A, Colas des Francs G. Coupling of a dipolar emitter into one-dimensional surface plasmon. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Acquisition Evaluation and Post Merger Integration. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

LePage BA, ed. Wetlands: Integrating Multidisciplinary Concepts. Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Cavapozzi D, Fiume A, Garrouste C, Weber G. Human Capital Accumulation and Investment Behaviour. In: Börsch-Supan A, Brandt M, Hank K, Schröder M, eds. The Individual and the Welfare State: Life Histories in Europe. Springer; 2011:45-57.

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

Andrew E. What Causes Schizophrenia? IFLScience. June 4, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-closer-ever-discovering-cause-schizophrenia/

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. Meeting the Aging Aircraft Challenge: Status and Opportunities. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kalinec-Craig C. A Case Study of Four Latina/o Pre-Service Teachers in Learning to Teach Mathematics for Understanding and Integrate a Child’s out-of-School Mathematical Knowledge and Experiences. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2012.

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

Ginsburg RB. R.B.G.’s Advice for Living. New York Times. October 1, 2016:SR4.

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