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

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

Kessin RH. Microbiology. Sex and sacrifice. Science. 2010 Dec 10;330(6010):1487–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luk YY, Abbott NL. Surface-driven switching of liquid crystals using redox-active groups on electrodes. Science. 2003 Aug 1;301(5633):623–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moses MJ, Fettinger JC, Eichhorn BW. Interpenetrating As20 fullerene and Ni12 icosahedra in the onion-skin [As@Ni12@As20]3- ion. Science. 2003 May 2;300(5620):778–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ferraz G, Nichols JD, Hines JE, Stouffer PC, Bierregaard RO Jr, Lovejoy TE. A large-scale deforestation experiment: effects of patch area and isolation on Amazon birds. Science. 2007 Jan 12;315(5809):238–41.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stolarski TA, Tobe S. Rolling Contacts. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2000.

An edited book

Hagen SJ, editor. The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. IX, 252 p. 75 illus., 47 illus. in color. (Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering).

A chapter in an edited book

Horiuchi T, Masamune K, Tsukihara H, Motomura N, Kuwana K, Dohi T. Clipping Device with a Clear Liquid-Flushing Endoscope Equipping Wide View Coaxial Nozzle for Edge-to-Edge Repair Surgery without Heart-Lung Machine. In: Dohi T, Liao H, editors. Computer Aided Surgery: 7th Asian Conference on Computer Aided Surgery, Bangkok, Thailand, August 2011, Proceedings. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2012. p. 38–46. (Proceedings in Information and Communications Technology).

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 Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013. SARS Pandemic Originated in Bats.

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. ADP Management: Status of the Army’s Logistics and Technical Information Initiatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Oct. Report No.: IMTEC-89-10.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farooq AS. Singing the blues: Indicators of mental illness among nursing home elderly [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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

Qiu L. Pre-Existing Conditions: There’s Truth-Stretching From Both Sides. New York Times. 2017 May 4;A13.

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 Journal of Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (online)	1449-1907
Scope	General Medicine