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

Jenkins M. Prospects for biodiversity. Science. 2003;302(5648):1175-1177.

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Roy P, Briggs DEG. A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid. Nature. 2011;473(7348):510-513.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tomoyasu Y, Wheeler SR, Denell RE. Ultrabithorax is required for membranous wing identity in the beetle Tribolium castaneum. Nature. 2005;433(7026):643-647.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Piffanelli P, Ramsay L, Waugh R, et al. A barley cultivation-associated polymorphism conveys resistance to powdery mildew. Nature. 2004;430(7002):887-891.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wartenberg TE. A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries. Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

Hu W, ed. Electronics and Signal Processing: Selected Papers from the 2011 International Conference on Electric and Electronics (EEIC 2011) in Nanchang, China on June 20–22, 2011, Volume 1. Vol 97. Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Graziottin A, Murina F. Vulvodinia: che cosa dicono le donne? In: Murina F, ed. Vulvodinia: Strategie Di Diagnosi e Cura. Springer; 2011:29-36.

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

Fang J. One Injection Reverses Diabetes Symptoms Without Side Effects. 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. Telecommunications Network: NASA Could Better Manage Its Planned Consolidation. 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

Barnett J. Understanding Gender Differences in Teachers’ Level of Insight as It Relates to ADHD. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 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

Michael Kelly With. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Candidate’s Record; Detective for Perot Describes Inquiry Into a Rival Business. New York Times. July 8, 1992:A1.

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