How to format your references using the International Archives of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Archives of 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

Linden DJ. Neuroscience. From molecules to memory in the cerebellum. Science. 2003 Sep 19;301(5640):1682–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Welker J, Giessibl FJ. Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy. Science. 2012 Apr 27;336(6080):444–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rappuoli R, Miller HI, Falkow S. Medicine. The intangible value of vaccination. Science. 2002 Aug 9;297(5583):937–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ding Z, Fong RB, Long CJ, Stayton PS, Hoffman AS. Size-dependent control of the binding of biotinylated proteins to streptavidin using a polymer shield. Nature. 2001 May 3;411(6833):59–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen C. Business Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Wiercigroch M, Rega G, editors. IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics for Advanced Technologies and Engineering Design, held Aberdeen, UK, 27-30 July 2010. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. XII, 454 p. (IUTAM Bookseries (closed); vol. 32).

A chapter in an edited book

Bertola P, Harfoush N, Vacca F. Charting Interdisciplinary Innovation Programs: Map of Experiences. In: Banerjee B, Ceri S, editors. Creating Innovation Leaders: A Global Perspective. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 105–23. (Understanding Innovation).

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 International Archives of Medicine.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. This Is What The Internet Looked Like In 1973. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-is-what-the-internet-looked-like-in-1973/

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. VHA’s Management Improvement Initiative. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Aug. Report No.: HEHS-96-191R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tasoff AJ. Quantifying the Genetic Capacity of California Grunion (Leuresthes tenuis) to Adapt to Ocean Acidification [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Cooper M, Walsh MW. Buying a Gun? States Consider Insurance Rule. New York Times. 2013 Feb 21;A1.

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	International Archives of Medicine
Abbreviation	Int. Arch. Med.
ISSN (print)	1755-7682
Scope	General Medicine