How to format your references using the Chinese Medical Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Chinese Medical Journal. 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

Heilbron JL. Coming to terms. Nature. 2002 Feb 7;415(6872):585.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ehrlich PR, Kennedy D. Sustainability. Millennium assessment of human behavior. Science. 2005 Jul 22;309(5734):562–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Canfield DE, Poulton SW, Narbonne GM. Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science. 2007 Jan 5;315(5808):92–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rey J, Buffet PA, Ciceron L, Milon G, Mercereau-Puijalon O, Safeukui I. Reduced erythrocyte deformability associated with hypoargininemia during Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 20;4:3767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eylert B. The Mobile Multimedia Business. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Pohlmann N, Reimer H, Schneider W, editors. ISSE 2009 Securing Electronic Business Processes: Highlights of the Information Security Solutions Europe 2009 Conference. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner; 2010. XVI, 368 p. 73 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarkar M, Theuwissen A. Design of a CMOS Polarization Sensor. In: Theuwissen A, editor. A Biologically Inspired CMOS Image Sensor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 105–55. (Studies in Computational Intelligence).

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 Chinese Medical Journal.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. “Maleness Gene” Could Be Key To Destroying Malaria Mosquitos. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/maleness-gene-could-be-key-to-destroying-malaria-mosquitos/

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. Electronic Signature: Sanction of the Department of State’s System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Jul. Report No.: AIMD-00-227R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Herrera K. Improved transportation for older adult volunteers: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Peters JW. A Conspiracy Theorist, His False Comey Tweet And a Runaway Story. New York Times. 2017 Jun 11;A22.

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	Chinese Medical Journal
Abbreviation	Chin. Med. J. (Engl.)
ISSN (print)	0366-6999
Scope	General Medicine