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

Bottjer DJ. Geochemistry. Life in the Early Triassic ocean. Science. 2012;338:336–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deng K, Siliciano RF. HIV: Early treatment may not be early enough. Nature. 2014;512:35–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilson AM, Watson JC, Lichtwark GA. Biomechanics: A catapult action for rapid limb protraction. Nature. 2003;421:35–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schwarz D, Matta BM, Shakir-Botteri NL, et al. Host shift to an invasive plant triggers rapid animal hybrid speciation. Nature. 2005;436:546–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaplan W. Maxima and Minima with Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998.

An edited book

Henes M, Murray BH, editors. Travel Writing, Visual Culture and Form, 1760–1900. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Braun CB, Grande T. Evolution of Peripheral Mechanisms for the Enhancement of Sound Reception. In: Webb JF, Fay RR, Popper AN, eds. Fish Bioacoustics: With 81 Illustrations. New York, NY: Springer 2008:99–144.

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

Andrew D. Watch A Red-Hot Ball Of Nickel Melt A Bowl Of Jello From The Inside Out. IFLScience. 2015. (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. USDA Research and Extension Agencies: Missions, Structures, and Budgets. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nye KM. Crème de Pêche. 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

Hubbard B. An American in Syria, Offering a Window on Jihad. New York Times. 2017;A7.

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