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]

Komander D. Biochemistry. Details of destruction, one molecule at a time. Science 2015;348:183–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Allenby B, Fink J. Toward inherently secure and resilient societies. Science 2005;309:1034–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Rohani P, Zhong X, King AA. Contact network structure explains the changing epidemiology of pertussis. Science 2010;330:982–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Guo X, Jin M, Yang M, Liu K, Li J-W. Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the risk of hepatitis C virus infection: a systematic review. Sci Rep 2013;3:2981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Zadora G, Martyna A, Ramos D, Aitken C. Statistical Analysis in Forensic Science. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Alonso ME, Arrondo E, Mallavibarrena R, Sols I, editors. Liaison, Schottky Problem and Invariant Theory: Remembering Federico Gaeta. vol. 280. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lindop J, Treece G, Gee A, Prager R. Dynamic Resolution Selection in Strain Imaging. In: Akiyama I, editor. Acoustical Imaging, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009, p. 33–8.

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]

Carpineti A. Stellar Tails Reveal The Hidden Geometry Of Pulsars. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stellar-tails-reveal-the-hidden-geometry-of-pulsars/ (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. Earth Observing System: Concerns Over NASA’s Basic Research Funding Strategy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Grizzel RE. Three choral works by Dr. James Mobberley—the analysis rehearsal, and performance of “Poem to Ease Birth”, “Lullaby”, and “Spring: O Sparrow.” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Wagner J. Their Run Together May Be Nearing an End. New York Times 2017:B8.

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

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