How to format your references using the European Journal of Internal Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Internal 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:

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

[1]

May T. Isolation is not the answer. Nature 2004;429:603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Azzalin CM, Lingner J. Cell biology. Telomere wedding ends in divorce. Science 2004;304:60–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Toulokhonov I, Artsimovitch I, Landick R. Allosteric control of RNA polymerase by a site that contacts nascent RNA hairpins. Science 2001;292:730–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Li M-X, Jiang Z-Q, Xie W-J, Miccichè S, Tumminello M, Zhou W-X, et al. A comparative analysis of the statistical properties of large mobile phone calling networks. Sci Rep 2014;4:5132.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Janke SJ, Tinsley FC. Introduction to Linear Models and Statistical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Baruah S. Multiprocessor Scheduling for Real-Time Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Haberlandt K. ERP-Planning Garbage: Realizing and Preventing. In: Piazolo F, Felderer M, editors. Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems: ERP Future 2012 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, November 2012, Revised Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 31–51.

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 European Journal of Internal Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. How To Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-to-know-when-holiday-drinking-is-hurting-your-brain/ (accessed October 30, 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. Education Allowance Grants Made to Trust Territory Government Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1969.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tsai C-N. A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Branch J. No White House Visit? Actually, No Invitation. New York Times 2017:B13.

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	European Journal of Internal Medicine
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Intern. Med.
ISSN (print)	0953-6205
Scope	Internal Medicine