How to format your references using the GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information. 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

Rabiner L. Computer science. The power of speech. Science. 2003 Sep 12;301(5639):1494–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer CG, Sanders K. Unidirectional airflow in the lungs of alligators. Science. 2010 Jan 15;327(5963):338–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

Loubeyre P, Occelli F, LeToullec R. Optical studies of solid hydrogen to 320 GPa and evidence for black hydrogen. Nature. 2002 Apr 11;416(6881):613–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

González LM, Ruder WC, Leduc PR, Messner WC. Controlling magnetotactic bacteria through an integrated nanofabricated metallic island and optical microscope approach. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 20;4:4104.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zneimer SM. Cytogenetic Abnormalities. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

Studer UE, editor. Keys to Successful Orthotopic Bladder Substitution. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. X, 139 p. 79 illus., 58 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivkin W, Schmidt KH. Beneficial Effects of Servant Leadership on Short- and Long-Term Indicators of Employees’ Psychological Health. In: Deml B, Stock P, Bruder R, Schlick CM, editors. Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of GfA 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. p. 71–85.

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 GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information.

Blog post

Evans K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. 22 Signs You Might Be A Narcissist.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Sep. Report No.: AIMD-99-293.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hung HC. Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Kelly DA. 36 Hours | Saratoga, N.Y. New York Times. 2002 Jun 7;F6.

In-text citations

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

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	GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information
ISSN (print)	1865-066X
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