How to format your references using the Journal of Korean Medical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Korean Medical Science. 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

Marino J. On the road again. Science. 2014 Jun 6;344(6188):1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vijg J, Campisi J. Puzzles, promises and a cure for ageing. Nature. 2008 Aug 28;454(7208):1065–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li CYT, Poo MM, Dan Y. Burst spiking of a single cortical neuron modifies global brain state. Science. 2009 May 1;324(5927):643–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mariantoni M, Wang H, Yamamoto T, Neeley M, Bialczak RC, Chen Y, et al. Implementing the quantum von Neumann architecture with superconducting circuits. Science. 2011 Oct 7;334(6052):61–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller G, Ponick B. Grundlagen elektrischer Maschinen. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Fitzgibbon A, Lazebnik S, Perona P, Sato Y, Schmid C, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2012: 12th European Conference on Computer Vision, Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part VI. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. XXIV, 893 p. 433 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7577).

A chapter in an edited book

Colombini M. Ceramide Channels. In: Delcour AH, editor. Electrophysiology of Unconventional Channels and Pores. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 75–98. (Springer Series in Biophysics).

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 Korean Medical Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. NASA Tests 3D Printed Rocket Parts. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nasa-tests-3d-printed-rocket-parts/

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. FAA Budget: Key Issues Need to Be Addressed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 May. Report No.: T-RCED-92-67.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Truong T. Microfluidics-based system for high-throughput analysis of nitrite in harbor water [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Kenigsberg B. All These Sleepless Nights. New York Times. 2017 Apr 13;C7.

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 Korean Medical Science
Abbreviation	J. Korean Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1011-8934
ISSN (online)	1598-6357
Scope	General Medicine