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

Mellars P. Going east: new genetic and archaeological perspectives on the modern human colonization of Eurasia. Science 2006;313:796–800.

A journal article with 2 authors

Farrant M, Cull-Candy SG. Neuroscience. AMPA receptors--another twist? Science 2010;327:1463–1465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lobell DB, Schlenker W, Costa-Roberts J. Climate trends and global crop production since 1980. Science 2011;333:616–620.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Thomson MC, Doblas-Reyes FJ, Mason SJ, Hagedorn R, Connor SJ, et al. Malaria early warnings based on seasonal climate forecasts from multi-model ensembles. Nature 2006;439:576–579.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rodman GB. Why Cultural Studies? Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Milsom JW, Böhm B, Nakajima K (eds). Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery. Second Edition. New York, NY: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T. Breast Cancer. In: Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T (editors). Positron Emission Tomography. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. pp. 59–76.

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 A Parachute Drop Go Wrong As Three Cars Slam Into The Ground. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/physics-deals-cruel-hand-us-armys-car-parachute-drop/ (2016, 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. Information on Funding of Correctional Projects. B-171019; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 4 April 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ashrafzadeh MH. Provision of community services for the mentally challenged population in Iran. Doctoral Dissertation; University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

Brownmiller S. Hugh Hefner Was My Enemy. New York Times, 29 September 2017, p. SR3.

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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