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

Boyle E. Oceanography. Oceanic salt switch. Science. 2002 Nov 29;298(5599):1724–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang J, Ferré-D’Amaré AR. Co-crystal structure of a T-box riboswitch stem I domain in complex with its cognate tRNA. Nature. 2013 Aug 15;500(7462):363–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen M, Shavit R, Zalevsky Z. Observing optical plasmons on a single nanometer scale. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 21;4:4096.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

McDonald BC, de Gouw JA, Gilman JB, Jathar SH, Akherati A, Cappa CD, et al. Volatile chemical products emerging as largest petrochemical source of urban organic emissions. Science. 2018 Feb 16;359(6377):760–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yakushevich LV. Nonlinear Physics of DNA. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Dea C. JavaFX 8: Introduction by Example. Second Edition. Heckler M, Grunwald G, Pereda J, Phillips SM, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2014. XXIII, 420 p. 139 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Plaza A, Plaza J, Valencia D. AMEEPAR: Parallel Morphological Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image Classification on Heterogeneous Networks of Workstations. In: Alexandrov VN, Albada GD van, Sloot PMA, Dongarra J, editors. Computational Science – ICCS 2006: 6th International Conference, Reading, UK, May 28-31, 2006 Proceedings, Part III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 24–31. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. A Giant Among Dwarfs: New Species Of Dwarf Bushbaby Discovered In Angola. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/a-giant-among-dwarfs-new-species-of-dwarf-bushbaby-discovered-in-angola/

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. Intermodal Transportation: Results of GAO’s Survey on Air-Rail Connectivity (GAO-13-692SP, August 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-691. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 Aug. Report No.: GAO-13-692SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Howard GM. Roles of vitamin D and calcium in cancer and diet history [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 2012.

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

Harmon A, Fountain H. For Scientists, a Political Test. New York Times. 2017 Feb 6;D1.

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