How to format your references using the JMM Case Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JMM Case Reports. 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	Download the output style file
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

Benedetti-Cecchi L. Variance in ecological consumer-resource interactions. Nature 2000;407:370–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rubin AF, Green P. Comment on ‘The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers’. Science 2007;317:1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cziczo DJ, Thomson DS, Murphy DM. Ablation, flux, and atmospheric implications of meteors inferred from stratospheric aerosol. Science 2001;291:1772–1775.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Han X, Wang C-T, Bai J, Chapman ER, Jackson MB. Transmembrane segments of syntaxin line the fusion pore of Ca2+-triggered exocytosis. Science 2004;304:289–292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barkham R. Real Estate and Globalisation. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

Marin J-M. Bayesian Essentials with R. 2nd ed. 2014. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Hashimoto H, Uragami C, Cogdell RJ. Carotenoids and Photosynthesis. In: Stange C (editor). Carotenoids in Nature: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Function. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 111–139.

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 JMM Case Reports.

Blog post

Hale T. Watch This Homemade Electromagnetic Gun Vaporize A Piggybank. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/amateurs-create-super-powerful-diy-railgun/ (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. Environmental Protection: Rocket Tests in Mississippi to Be Heavily Restricted. NSIAD-92-86; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 7 February 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barkis B. How Do Highly Engaged Employees and Managers Find Meaning in Their Work? Doctoral Dissertation; Pepperdine University; 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

Vecsey G. N.H.L. Is Playing on Its Home Ice. New York Times, 3 June 2011, p. B14.

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	JMM Case Reports
Abbreviation	JMM Case Rep.
ISSN (online)	2053-3721
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