How to format your references using the JAMIA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JAMIA. 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

Gill JL. ECOLOGY. Learning from Africa’s herbivores. Science. 2015;350:1036–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhuo S, Ni M. Label-free and real-time imaging of dehydration-induced DNA conformational changes in cellular nucleus using second harmonic microscopy. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7416.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chesler EJ, Rodriguez-Zas SL, Mogil JS. In silico mapping of mouse quantitative trait loci. Science. 2001;294:2423.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Spicer RA, Harris NBW, Widdowson M, et al. Constant elevation of southern Tibet over the past 15 million years. Nature. 2003;421:622–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wen S, Huang P. Principles of Tribology. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd 2011.

An edited book

Pouliot J, Daniel S, Hubert F, et al., editors. Progress and New Trends in 3D Geoinformation Sciences. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsugawa M, Matsunaga A, Fortes JAB. Cloud Computing Security: What Changes with Software-Defined Networking? In: Jajodia S, Kant K, Samarati P, et al., eds. Secure Cloud Computing. New York, NY: Springer 2014:77–93.

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 JAMIA.

Blog post

Hale T. Roman British Skeleton Buried Face Down With Mutilated Tongue Puzzles Archaeologists. IFLScience. 2017. (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Henderson MM. Coming to Terms: Career Development Experiences of NCAA Division I Female Student-Athletes in Transition. 2013.

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

Johnson G. The Gradual Extinction of Accepted Truths. New York Times. 2015;D6.

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	JAMIA
Abbreviation	J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1067-5027
ISSN (online)	1527-974X
Scope	Health Informatics