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

Abbott A. How to make it in Moscow. Nature 2007;448:983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang SC, Hu J. A four-dimensional generalization of the quantum Hall effect. Science 2001;294:823–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clutton-Brock TH, Coulson T, Milner JM. Red deer stocks in the Highlands of Scotland. Nature 2004;429:261–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bech M, Tapfer A, Velroyen A, et al. In-vivo dark-field and phase-contrast x-ray imaging. Sci Rep 2013;3:3209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina JC, Fratta D. Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. Chichester, UK: : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2006.

An edited book

Gelbukh AF, editor. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 12th International Conference, CICLing 2011, Tokyo, Japan, February 20-26, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: : Springer 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Altland A, Egger R. Nonequilibrium Transport and Dephasing in Coulomb-Blockaded Quantum Dots. In: Cabra DC, Honecker A, Pujol P, eds. Modern Theories of Many-Particle Systems in Condensed Matter Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: : Springer 2012. 215–44.

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

Davis J. New Metal Composite Can Float On Water. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Information Technology: Department of Labor Could Further Facilitate Modernization of States’ Unemployment Insurance Systems. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caltrider CS. Critical Pedagogy Unit of Ceramics Instruction: Fostering Civic Engagement in California High School Students. 2017.

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

Leland J. Midcentury City. New York Times. 2017;:MB10.

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

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