How to format your references using the Archives of Medical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Medical Research. 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

Vahala KJ. Optical microcavities. Nature. 2003 Aug 14;424(6950):839–46.

A journal article with 2 authors

MacArthur BD, Oreffo ROC. Bridging the gap. Nature. 2005 Jan 6;433(7021):19.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rosin-Arbesfeld R, Townsley F, Bienz M. The APC tumour suppressor has a nuclear export function. Nature. 2000 Aug 31;406(6799):1009–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hattendorf DA, Andreeva A, Gangar A, Brennwald PJ, Weis WI. Structure of the yeast polarity protein Sro7 reveals a SNARE regulatory mechanism. Nature. 2007 Mar 29;446(7135):567–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schepers U. RNA Interference in Practice. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Sheiner E, editor. Bleeding During Pregnancy: A Comprehensive Guide. New York, NY: Springer; 2011. XI, 300 p. 39 illus., 16 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Halkin H. Optimal Control as Programming in Infinite Dimensional Spaces. In: Conti R, editor. Calculus of Variations, Classical and Modern. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 177–92.

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 Archives of Medical Research.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Here’s How To Always Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-to-win-at-rock-paper-scissors/

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. Direct Student Loans: Efforts to Resolve Lenders’ Problems With Consolidations Are Under Way. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-98-103.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Desai SS. CFD simuation of flow past a rotating circular cylinder with an end plate [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Garner D. The Cold War Heats Up Again. New York Times. 2017 Aug 28;C1.

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	Archives of Medical Research
Abbreviation	Arch. Med. Res.
ISSN (print)	0188-4409
ISSN (online)	1873-5487
Scope	General Medicine