How to format your references using the Internal and Emergency Medicine citation style

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

Korb J (2014) Engineering. Robots acting locally and building globally. Science 343:742–743

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishimura M, Somerville S (2002) Plant biology. Resisting attack. Science 295:2032–2033

A journal article with 3 authors

Verma T, Araújo NAM, Herrmann HJ (2014) Revealing the structure of the world airline network. Sci Rep 4:5638

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee Y, Vogt T, Hriljac JA, et al (2002) Non-framework cation migration and irreversible pressure-induced hydration in a zeolite. Nature 420:485–489

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wildi O (2010) Data Analysis in Vegetation Ecology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Saunders C, Grobelnik M, Gunn S, Shawe-Taylor J (2006) Subspace, Latent Structure and Feature Selection: Statistical and Optimization Perspectives Workshop, SLSFS 2005, Bohinj, Slovenia, February 23-25, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Kirsch CM, Sokolova A (2012) The Logical Execution Time Paradigm. In: Chakraborty S, Eberspächer J (eds) Advances in Real-Time Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 103–120

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 Internal and Emergency Medicine.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2015) Intelligent Dressing Glows When Wounds Are Infected. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1988) Civilian Agencies’ Management and Use of Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Raynor SL (2017) A Critical Quantitative Examination of the Relationship between Constructs of Engagement and Latino College Completion. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Paulson M (2017) The Musical That Toppled a Confederate Statue. New York Times C4

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	Internal and Emergency Medicine
Abbreviation	Intern. Emerg. Med.
ISSN (print)	1828-0447
ISSN (online)	1970-9366
Scope	Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine

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