How to format your references using the Journal of Acute Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Acute Medicine. 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

Smoot GF. Thinking in aeons. Nature. 2010;467(7317):S12.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lea AM, Ryan MJ. SEXUAL SELECTION. Irrationality in mate choice revealed by túngara frogs. Science. 2015;349(6251):964-966.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-David O, Rubinstein SM, Fineberg J. Slip-stick and the evolution of frictional strength. Nature. 2010;463(7277):76-79.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cao S, Li C, Wang L, et al. Long-lived and well-resolved Mn²⁺ ion emissions in CuInS-ZnS quantum dots. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7510.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemberger P, Morel M. Managing Complexity of Information Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Vega FF de, Cantú-Paz E, eds. Parallel and Distributed Computational Intelligence. Vol 269. Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Foshay WR, Villachica SW, Stepich DA. Cousins but Not Twins: Instructional Design and Human Performance Technology in the Workplace. In: Spector JM, Merrill MD, Elen J, Bishop MJ, eds. Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology. Springer; 2014:39-49.

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 Journal of Acute Medicine.

Blog post

Hale T. NASA Footage Shows Strange “Black Hole” In The Sun. IFLScience. July 14, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-footage-shows-strange-black-hole-in-the-sun/

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Status of Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems Is Still Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wu DMC. Function and Regulation of Drosophila Myc during Wing Growth. Doctoral dissertation. Columbia University; 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

Pomfret J. Isolating China doesn’t work. New York Times. February 6, 2017:0.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Journal of Acute Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Acute Med.
ISSN (print)	2211-5587
Scope