How to format your references using the Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation (EJMI). 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

[1]

Wuethrich B. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Feds Team Up With a Company to Protect 17 Threatened Fish Species. Science 2000; 289:385.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McGuire JA, Shen YR. Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces. Science 2006; 313:1945–1948.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kobayashi S, Goto-Yamamoto N, Hirochika H. Retrotransposon-induced mutations in grape skin color. Science 2004; 304:982.

A journal article with 13 or more authors

[1]

Luo L, Yang X, Takihara Y, Knoetgen H, Kessel M. The cell-cycle regulator geminin inhibits Hox function through direct and polycomb-mediated interactions. Nature 2004; 427:749–753.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stratton JA. Electromagnetic Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Allen M, Mayes R, Rixen D (eds.). Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Olivas F, Valdez F, Castillo O. A Comparative Study of Membership Functions for an Interval Type-2 Fuzzy System used to Dynamic Parameter Adaptation in Particle Swarm Optimization. In: Castillo O, Melin P, Pedrycz W, Kacprzyk J (eds.), Recent Advances on Hybrid Approaches for Designing Intelligent Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014:67–78.

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 Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Running May Boost Connectivity In Your Brain; 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/running-may-boost-connectivity-your-brain/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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. Space Shuttle: Further Improvements Needed in NASA’s Modernization Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rendleman AJ. Energetics of Physiological Plasticity during Larval Development of the Sand Dollar, Dendraster Excentricus. Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton, in South Carolina, Shows He Is a Threat in the South. New York Times 1992:130.

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	Eurasian Journal of Medical Investigation
ISSN (online)	2602-3164
Scope