How to format your references using the International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus. 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

[1]

Fischhoff B. The realities of risk-cost-benefit analysis. Science 2015;350:aaa6516.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wallace SC, Wang X. Two new carnivores from an unusual late Tertiary forest biota in eastern North America. Nature 2004;431:556–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dunham EM, Favreau P, Carlson JM. A supershear transition mechanism for cracks. Science 2003;299:1557–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

O’Sullivan MC, Sprafke JK, Kondratuk DV, Rinfray C, Claridge TDW, Saywell A, et al. Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring. Nature 2011;469:72–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rachev ST, Kim YS, Bianchi ML, Fabozzi FJ. Financial Models with Lévy Processes and Volatility Clustering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ladikas M, Chaturvedi S, Zhao Y, Stemerding D, editors. Science and Technology Governance and Ethics: A Global Perspective from Europe, India and China. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kaltsas GA, Chrousos G. Pseudo-Cushing’s Syndrome. In: Swearingen B, Biller BMK, editors. Cushing’s Disease, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011, p. 57–70.

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 Journal of Diabetes Mellitus.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Here’s A List Of Every Upcoming Space Mission For The Next Twenty Years - And Some Of Them Are Unbelievably Awesome. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/heres-a-list-of-every-upcoming-space-mission-for-the-next-twenty-years-and-some-of-them-are-unbelievably-awesome/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wen J. Moving office document processing into the cloud. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Collins-Hughes L. The God of Wine’s Grand Plan in the Garden State. New York Times 2017:C2.

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	International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus
Abbreviation	Int. J. Diabetes Mellit.
ISSN (print)	1877-5934
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine