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

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

Boger DL. ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. When sugar is not so sweet. Science 2015;350(6258):275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Toroczkai Z, Bassler KE. Network dynamics: jamming is limited in scale-free systems. Nature 2004;428(6984):716.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kayser MS, Yue Z, Sehgal A. A critical period of sleep for development of courtship circuitry and behavior in Drosophila. Science 2014;344(6181):269–274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Munschauer M, Nguyen CT, Sirokman K et al. The NORAD lncRNA assembles a topoisomerase complex critical for genome stability. Nature 2018;561(7721):132–136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarkar TK, Salazar-Palma M, Mokole EL. Physics of Multiantenna Systems and Broadband Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2007.

An edited book

Palsberg J, Su Z, eds. Static Analysis: 16th International Symposium, SAS 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 9-11, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Serino L, Arcelli C, Sanniti di Baja G. Decomposing and Sketching 3D Objects by Curve Skeleton Processing. In: Ruiz-Shulcloper J, Sanniti di Baja G, eds. Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Applications: 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013, Havana, Cuba, November 20-23, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:25–32.

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 Journal of Contemporary Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Bears Are Terrified Of “UFOs”: Should We Stop Using Drones To Monitor Wildlife? IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bears-are-terrified-ufos/. Accessed October 30, 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. Review of Estimate in Prime Contract N00019-71-C-0450 With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harris DW. An examination of the impact of computer-based animations and visualization sequence on student understanding of Hadley Cells in atmospheric circulation. 2012.

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

Valerian S. For a Brown, the Comeback Trail Leads Home. New York Times. October 3, 2013:B17.

In-text citations

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

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 Contemporary Medicine
ISSN (online)	2146-6009
Scope