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

Meyer A. George C. Williams (1926-2010). Nature. 2010 Oct 14;467(7317):790.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eeva T, Lehikoinen E. Recovery of breeding success in wild birds. Nature. 2000 Feb 24;403(6772):851–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chave J, Alonso D, Etienne RS. Theoretical biology: comparing models of species abundance. Nature. 2006 May 4;441(7089):E1; discussion E1-2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yokouchi Y, Ikeda M, Inuzuka Y, Yukawa T. Strong emission of methyl chloride from tropical plants. Nature. 2002 Mar 14;416(6877):163–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Haik B, Roy DM. Service Design for Six Sigma. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Gause WC, Artis D, editors. The Th2 Type Immune Response in Health and Disease: From Host Defense and Allergy to Metabolic Homeostasis and Beyond. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer; 2016. XIV, 172 p. 23 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Brandstaetter T, Bamber D, Weir D. ‘Wasta’: Triadic Trust in Jordanian Business. In: Ramady MA, editor. The Political Economy of Wasta: Use and Abuse of Social Capital Networking. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–78.

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

Taub B. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Cannibal Squid Spotted Tearing Each Other To Pieces In California. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cannibal-squid-spotted-tearing-each-other-pieces-california/

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. Highway Emergency Relief: Reexamination Needed to Address Fiscal Imbalance and Long-term Sustainability. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Feb. Report No.: GAO-07-245.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McGrew C. Living with Diabetes: The Value of Everyday Communication [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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

Dorman JL. Art Deco Los Angeles. New York Times. 2016 Oct 4;TR1.

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