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

Robinson CV. Women in science: In pursuit of female chemists. Nature. 2011;476(7360):273-275.

A journal article with 2 authors

Körner C, Basler D. Plant science. Phenology under global warming. Science. 2010;327(5972):1461-1462.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hillenbrand R, Taubner T, Keilmann F. Phonon-enhanced light matter interaction at the nanometre scale. Nature. 2002;418(6894):159-162.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gill RA, Polley HW, Johnson HB, Anderson LJ, Maherali H, Jackson RB. Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2). Nature. 2002;417(6886):279-282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Random Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Rozelot JP, Neiner C, eds. The Rotation of Sun and Stars. Vol 765. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Siddiqi K, Bouix S, Shah J. Skeletons via Shocks of Boundary Evolution. In: Siddiqi K, Pizer SM, eds. Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Computational Imaging and Vision. Springer Netherlands; 2008:127-154.

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

Andrews R. Cheetahs Are Tumbling Toward Extinction. IFLScience.

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. [Comments on Referral of NASA Subcontractors’ Claims to Congress]. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hutson MD. Three Essays on Macroeconomic Forecasting. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

Wagner J. Gifts From a Fan Give Cespedes a Lift. New York Times. August 31, 2016:B11.

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