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]

Vastag B. Assembly work. Nature 2008;453:422–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yagi K, Yunes N. I-Love-Q: unexpected universal relations for neutron stars and quark stars. Science 2013;341:365–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Spracklen DV, Arnold SR, Taylor CM. Observations of increased tropical rainfall preceded by air passage over forests. Nature 2012;489:282–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

He Y, Nagashima K, Kanai M, Meng G, Zhuge F, Rahong S, et al. Nanoscale size-selective deposition of nanowires by micrometer scale hydrophilic patterns. Sci Rep 2014;4:5943.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Schwedt G. Experimente rund um die Kunststoffe des Alltags. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 232. vol. 232. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Widz S, Ślęzak D. Granular Attribute Selection: A Case Study of Rough Set Approach to MRI Segmentation. In: Maji P, Ghosh A, Murty MN, Ghosh K, Pal SK, editors. Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence: 5th International Conference, PReMI 2013, Kolkata, India, December 10-14, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 47–52.

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]

Andrews R. Cats Are Living Longer And Healthier Lives Than Ever Before. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cats-living-longer-healthier-lives-ever-before/ (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. The Air Force Should Cancel Plans To Acquire Two Computer Systems at Most Bases. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Builes AJ. Inferring Function: A Study of Three Prehistoric Structures in El Pital, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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]

Poniewozik J. TV’s United States of ‘Sieg Heil.’ New York Times 2016:C1.

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