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

Komar AA. Genetics. SNPs, silent but not invisible. Science. 2007;315(5811):466-467.

A journal article with 2 authors

White AE, Harper JW. Cancer. Emerging anatomy of the BAP1 tumor suppressor system. Science. 2012;337(6101):1463-1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chung K, Lee CH, Yi GC. Transferable GaN layers grown on ZnO-coated graphene layers for optoelectronic devices. Science. 2010;330(6004):655-657.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zofall M, Fischer T, Zhang K, et al. Histone H2A.Z cooperates with RNAi and heterochromatin factors to suppress antisense RNAs. Nature. 2009;461(7262):419-422.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ruppel W. Wiley GAAP for Governments 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Terboven C, de Supinski BR, Reble P, Chapman BM, Müller MS, eds. OpenMP: Heterogenous Execution and Data Movements: 11th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2015, Aachen, Germany, October 1-2, 2015, Proceedings. Vol 9342. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Umemura K, Church K. Substring Statistics. In: Gelbukh A, ed. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 10th International Conference, CICLing 2009, Mexico City, Mexico, March 1-7, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2009:53-71.

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

Andrew E. 139 New Species Discovered In Mekong, Including Thorny Tree Frog And “Dementor” Wasp. IFLScience. May 27, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/139-new-species-discovered-mekong-including-thorny-tree-frog-and-dementor-wasp/

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. Students with Disabilities: Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wonnacott CJ. Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2017.

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

Feeney K. QUICK BITE/Newark; The Best of Brazil. New York Times. September 10, 2006:14NJ19.

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