How to format your references using the Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications. 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

Hansen B. A bright future for dark matter. Nature. 2000;403(6765):30-31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kriaucionis S, Heintz N. The nuclear DNA base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is present in Purkinje neurons and the brain. Science. 2009;324(5929):929-930.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kumarevel T, Mizuno H, Kumar PKR. Structural basis of HutP-mediated anti-termination and roles of the Mg2+ ion and L-histidine ligand. Nature. 2005;434(7030):183-191.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Repp J, Meyer G, Paavilainen S, Olsson FE, Persson M. Imaging bond formation between a gold atom and pentacene on an insulating surface. Science. 2006;312(5777):1196-1199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iosifescu M, Limnios N, Oprişan G. Introduction to Stochastic Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2010.

An edited book

Trail IA, Fleming ANM, eds. Disorders of the Hand: Volume 3: Inflammation, Arthritis and Contractures. Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou SM, Chiclana F, John RI, Garibaldi JM. Fuzzification of the OWA Operators for Aggregating Uncertain Information with Uncertain Weights. In: Yager RR, Kacprzyk J, Beliakov G, eds. Recent Developments in the Ordered Weighted Averaging Operators: Theory and Practice. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing. Springer; 2011:91-109.

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 Diabetes and Its Complications.

Blog post

Andrew E. Where Will The Next Generation Of Nobel Prize Winners Come From? IFLScience. August 11, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/where-will-next-generation-nobel-prize-winners-come/

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. Interagency Laboratory Use: Current Practices and Recurring Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cherukuri H. 1, 3-Dipolar Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide with a Fluoro-Olefin. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Kenigsberg B. Review: ‘Danny Says,’ a Paean to a Rock Gadfly and Tastemaker. New York Times. September 30, 2016:C10.

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 Diabetes and Its Complications
Abbreviation	J. Diabetes Complications
ISSN (print)	1056-8727
Scope	Endocrinology Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine