How to format your references using the Diabetes Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Diabetes Management. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Butler D. Quake triggers research expedition. Nature. 423(6941), 673 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Mappes J, Lindström L. Ecology. How did the cuckoo get its polymorphic plumage? Science. 337(6094), 532–533 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

Taylor JP, Hardy J, Fischbeck KH. Toxic proteins in neurodegenerative disease. Science. 296(5575), 1991–1995 (2002).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lenarčič T, Albert I, Böhm H, et al. Eudicot plant-specific sphingolipids determine host selectivity of microbial NLP cytolysins. Science. 358(6369), 1431–1434 (2017).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson JC. Lean Auditing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Stadtler H. Advanced Planning in Supply Chains: Illustrating the Concepts Using an SAP® APO Case Study. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Aloisio G, Caffaro M, Epicoco I. A Grid Software Process. In: Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools. Cunha JC, Rana OF (Eds.), Springer, London, 75–98 (2006).

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 Diabetes Management.

Blog post

Luntz S. Researchers Make Self-Moving Alcohol Droplets [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/researchers-make-self-moving-alcohol-droplets/.

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. Space Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle. 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

Zoino JJ. Field Methods, Sampling Strategies, Historical Documents, and Data Redundancy: A Study of Historic Tenant Farmsteads in Leflore County, Mississippi. (2017).

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

Pilon M. In World of Finance, She Has Already Driven the Green. New York Times, B9 (2012).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Diabetes Management
Abbreviation	Diabetes Manag. (Lond.)
ISSN (print)	1758-1907
ISSN (online)	1758-1915
Scope