How to format your references using the Gender Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gender 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	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

Mitrofanov IG. Astrophysics: a constraint on canonical quantum gravity? Nature. 2003;426(6963):139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sijen T, Plasterk RHA. Transposon silencing in the Caenorhabditis elegans germ line by natural RNAi. Nature. 2003;426(6964):310-314.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catalli K, Shim SH, Prakapenka V. Thickness and Clapeyron slope of the post-perovskite boundary. Nature. 2009;462(7274):782-785.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fox AR, Bart SC, Meyer K, Cummins CC. Towards uranium catalysts. Nature. 2008;455(7211):341-349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli RJ, Milosevic DZ. Project Management ToolBox. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Han W, Huang Z, Hu C, Zhang H, Guo L, eds. Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2014 Workshops, SNA, NIS, and IoTS, Changsha, China, September 5, 2014. Proceedings. Vol 8710. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Abbas S, Benchohra M. Partial Functional Evolution Inclusions with Finite Delay. In: Benchohra M, ed. Advanced Functional Evolution Equations and Inclusions. Developments in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing; 2015:113-126.

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 Gender Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. NASA’s Maven Successfully Reaches Mars. IFLScience. Published September 22, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-maven-successfully-reaches-mars/

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. No Child Left Behind Act: Education Could Do More to Help States Better Define Graduation Rates and Improve Knowledge about Intervention Strategies. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lim RHJ. A Stylistic Analysis of and Performance Suggestions for Robert Muczynski’s Second Piano Sonata, Opus 22. 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

Poniewozik J. Politics Beyond the Scripted. New York Times. June 6, 2017:C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Gender Medicine
Abbreviation	Gend. Med.
ISSN (print)	1550-8579
Scope	General Medicine Gender Studies