How to format your references using the International Journal of Medical Informatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Medical Informatics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

R.M. Solow, Retrospective. Paul A. Samuelson (1915-2009), Science 327 (2010) 282.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Boettiger, A. Hastings, Tipping points: From patterns to predictions, Nature 493 (2013) 157–158.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.R. Kuhn, M. Emilio, R. Bush, Comment on “A large excess in apparent solar oblateness due to surface magnetism,” Science 324 (2009) 1143; author reply 1143.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V.D. Nguyen, W.S. Torres, P. Laczkowski, A. Marty, M. Jamet, C. Beigné, L. Notin, L. Vila, J.P. Attané, Elementary depinning processes of magnetic domain walls under fields and currents, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6509.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.M. Anson, Alexander’s Heirs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M. Jawaid, A. el K. Qaiss, R. Bouhfid, eds., Nanoclay Reinforced Polymer Composites: Nanocomposites and Bionanocomposites, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.Y. Masod, M. Mohamad, M.F.Z.R. Yahya, Microscopic Image and Text Examination of Conventional and Digital Printouts, in: O.H. Hassan, S.Z. Abidin, R. Legino, R. Anwar, M.F. Kamaruzaman (Eds.), International Colloquium of Art and Design Education Research (i-CADER 2014), Springer, Singapore, 2015: pp. 35–45.

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 Medical Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Explore the Ocean Floor From The Comfort Of Your Own Home, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/explore-ocean-floor-comfort-your-own-home/ (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, Activities of the Research and Development Center - Thailand, Advanced Research Projects Agency, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Picchini, Neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus: Modulation of stem cell fate by experience, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 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]

J. Leland, S.M. Nir, The Village Voice, Keeper of Downtown Cool, Will Shed Its Print Edition, New York Times (2017) A15.

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 Medical Informatics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Med. Inform.
ISSN (print)	1386-5056
Scope	Health Informatics