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

Moynihan D. A central agency is crucial for disaster response. Nature 2013;495:7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jia T, Pamer EG. Immunology. Dispensable but not irrelevant. Science 2009;325:549–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hedde PN, Stakic M, Gratton E. Rapid measurement of molecular transport and interaction inside living cells using single plane illumination. Sci Rep 2014;4:7048.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Duewell P, Kono H, Rayner KJ, et al. NLRP3 inflammasomes are required for atherogenesis and activated by cholesterol crystals. Nature 2010;464:1357–61.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Neil PV. Beginning Partial Differential Equations. Hoboken, NJ: : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008.

An edited book

Belloni S. L’occhio, le sue malattie e le sue cure. Milano: : Springer 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Giangrande PLF. nvCJD and Blood Products in the UK. In: Scharrer I, Schramm W, eds. 35th Hemophilia Symposium: Hamburg 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: : Springer 2006. 29–32.

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 E. Awesome Video Shows A Soyuz Launching And Docking To The International Space Station. IFLScience. 2015.https://www.iflscience.com/space/awesome-video-shows-soyuz-rocket-launch-and-dock-international-space-station/ (accessed 30 Oct 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. Air Force Contracting: Contracting for Maintenance of Training Aircraft at Columbus Air Force Base. Washington, DC: : U.S. Government Printing Office 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maas CC. Emergency department utilization patterns in patients with diabetes. 2014.

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

Wines M. A Racial Divide Remains Over Views of Justice. New York Times. 2014;:A1.

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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