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

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

1. Brin D. Reality check. Nature. 2000;404:229.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Schafer RJ, Moore T. Selective attention from voluntary control of neurons in prefrontal cortex. Science. 2011;332:1568–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chou C-H, Chuang J-K, Chen F-C. High-performance flexible waveguiding photovoltaics. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2244.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bhattacharya K, Conti S, Zanzotto G, Zimmer J. Crystal symmetry and the reversibility of martensitic transformations. Nature. 2004;428:55–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eggert H, Kauschke W. Structural Bearings. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

1. Pomogailo AD. Metallopolymer Nanocomposites. Kestelman VN, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Alam MS, Mukhopadhyay A. Three Paths to Point Placement. In: Ganguly S, Krishnamurti R, editors. Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics: First International Conference, CALDAM 2015, Kanpur, India, February 8-10, 2015 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 33–44.

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 Fetal Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. What Happens When A Man In A Mentos Suit Jumps Into A Tank Of Diet Coke? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Environmental Satellites: Polar-orbiting Satellite Acquisition Faces Delays; Decisions Needed on Whether and How to Ensure Climate Data Continuity. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 May. Report No.: GAO-08-518.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zhang X. Electroweak interactions and the delta resonance in a chiral effective field theory for nuclei [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 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

1. Hollander S. It’s All in the Family as Princeton Goes for a Title. New York Times. 2000 May 29;D10.

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	Journal of Fetal Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Fetal Med.
ISSN (print)	2348-1153
ISSN (online)	2348-8859
Scope