How to format your references using the Disaster and Military Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Disaster and Military 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1. Gershon D. All systems go for neuroscience. Nature. 2001;414:4–5.
A journal article with 2 authors
1. Isaksen ISA, Dalsøren SB. Atmospheric science. Getting a better estimate of an atmospheric radical. Science. 2011;331:38–9.
A journal article with 3 authors
1. Pawar S, Dell AI, Savage VM. Dimensionality of consumer search space drives trophic interaction strengths. Nature. 2012;486:485–9.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
1. Maharjan R, Seeto S, Notley-McRobb L, Ferenci T. Clonal adaptive radiation in a constant environment. Science. 2006;313:514–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Walter RJ. Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1998.
An edited book
1. Cowen R, Kazamias AM, editors. International Handbook of Comparative Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.
A chapter in an edited book
1. Netzer A, Meisels A. SOCIAL DCOP - Social Choice in Distributed Constraints Optimization. In: Brazier FMT, Nieuwenhuis K, Pavlin G, Warnier M, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 35–47.

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 Disaster and Military Medicine.

Blog post
1. Andrew E. How Some Parasites Can End Up In Your Eye And Turn You Blind [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-some-parasites-can-end-your-eye-and-turn-you-blind/

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
1. Government Accountability Office. FAA Research, Engineering and Development Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-89-21.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. Nelson T. Project Motherhood: A Grant Proposal Project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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
1. Pipher M. Nebraska’s Lonely Progressives. New York Times. 2014 Dec 27;A17.

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 titleDisaster and Military Medicine
AbbreviationDisaster Mil. Med.
ISSN (online)2054-314X
Scope

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