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

Krull W. A fresh start for European science. Nature. 2002;419(6904):249-250.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hines PJ, Zahn LM. Plant metabolism. Green pathways. Introduction. Science. 2012;336(6089):1657.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mehta MR, Lee AK, Wilson MA. Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code. Nature. 2002;417(6890):741-746.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kenet T, Bibitchkov D, Tsodyks M, Grinvald A, Arieli A. Spontaneously emerging cortical representations of visual attributes. Nature. 2003;425(6961):954-956.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sofronas A. Analytical Troubleshooting of Process Machinery and Pressure Vessels. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Bastos MA, Lebre A, Samko S, Spitkovsky IM, eds. Operator Theory, Operator Algebras and Applications. Vol 242. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Betz UAK, Camacho N, Gerards M, Stremersch S. Grassroots Innovation: A Promising Innovation Paradigm for Pharmaceutical Companies. In: Ding M, Eliashberg J, Stremersch S, eds. Innovation and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Emerging Practices, Research, and Policies. International Series in Quantitative Marketing. Springer; 2014:119-148.

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

Hamilton K. This Is What Your Brain Looks Like With Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience. Published March 1, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/animation-what-alzheimers-disease/

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. Space Acquisitions: Assessment of Overhead Persistent Infrared Technology Report. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coleman KM. Parent Involvement in the Promotion of Healthy Outcomes for Young Girls: A Grant Writing Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Rothenberg B. Dominant So Far on Clay, Nadal Hits A Bump on the Road to Roland Garros. New York Times. May 19, 2017:D1.

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

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