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

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

Smaglik P. Varmus tells Congress to grasp thorny policy issues. Nature. 2000;404(6778):530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacobsen SB, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. jacobsen@neodymium.harvard.edu. Geochemistry. How old is planet Earth? Science. 2003;300(5625):1513-1514.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner J, Cuby JG, McCaughrean MJ. An unusually massive stellar black hole in the Galaxy. Nature. 2001;414(6863):522-525.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yoshida Y, Kuroiwa H, Misumi O, et al. Isolated chloroplast division machinery can actively constrict after stretching. Science. 2006;313(5792):1435-1438.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Forsberg K, Mansdorf SZ. Quick Selection Guide to Chemical Protective Clothing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Auroux A, ed. Calorimetry and Thermal Methods in Catalysis. Vol 154. Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Tang Y, Deng K, Cao H, Zhou X. Trace-Based Runtime Instruction Rescheduling for Architecture Extension. In: Yang LT, Zhou X, Zhao W, Wu Z, Zhu Y, Lin M, eds. Embedded Software and Systems: Second International Conference, ICESS 2005, Xi’an, China, December 16-18, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2005:4-15.

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 Interventional Medicine.

Blog post

Davis J. Some Patients Suffering From Psychosis May Have An Autoimmune Disease Instead. IFLScience. Published December 8, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/some-patients-suffering-from-psychosis-may-have-an-autoimmune-disease-instead/

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. National Weather Service: Modernization Activities Affecting Northwestern Pennsylvania. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Llerena K. The Social Behaviors and Emotional Characteristics of Individuals Elevated on Social Anhedonia. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Saslow L. Route 110 Plan Worries Some Merchants. New York Times. September 2, 2006:LI2.

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 Interventional Medicine
ISSN (print)	2096-3602
Scope