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]

Verma IM. Renato Dulbecco (1914-2012). Nature 2012;483:408.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bilde-Sørensen JB, Schiøtz J. Materials science. Nanocrystals get twins. Science 2003;300:1244–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Little AF, van Oppen MJH, Willis BL. Flexibility in algal endosymbioses shapes growth in reef corals. Science 2004;304:1492–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Takatsu K, Miyaoku K, Roy SR, Murono Y, Sago T, Itagaki H, et al. Induction of female-to-male sex change in adult zebrafish by aromatase inhibitor treatment. Sci Rep 2013;3:3400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bisswanger H. Enzyme Kinetics. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Pautasso C, Tanter É, editors. Software Composition: 7th International Symposium, SC 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29-30, 2008. Proceedings. vol. 4954. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gdawiec K. Mandelbrot- and Julia-Like Rendering of Polynomiographs. In: Chmielewski LJ, Kozera R, Shin B-S, Wojciechowski K, editors. Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2014, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17, 2014. Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 25–32.

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]

Andrew E. Watch A Baby Pygmy Hippo Learn To Swim. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-pygmy-hippo-goes-swim/ (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. Charter Schools: Recent Experiences in Accessing Federal Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pincolini R. Latchkey girls. Doctoral dissertation. 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

[1]

Cooper M, Walsh MW. MOUNTING DEBTS BY STATES STOKE FEARS OF CRISIS. New York Times 2010:A1.

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