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

Radda G. Science in Europe. Biomedical research and international collaboration. Science. 2002 Jan 18;295(5554):445–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sutton PJ, Kusmartsev FV. Gravitational vortices and clump formation in Saturn’s F ring during an encounter with Prometheus. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1276.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt N, McGrath D, Stergiou N. The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 1;4:5879.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alcaraz Iranzo D, Nanot S, Dias EJC, Epstein I, Peng C, Efetov DK, et al. Probing the ultimate plasmon confinement limits with a van der Waals heterostructure. Science. 2018 Apr 20;360(6386):291–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Angueira P, Romo JA. Microwave Line of Sight Link Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Robinson-Agramonte M de LA, editor. Translational Approaches to Autism Spectrum Disorder. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XIV, 218 p. 19 illus., 11 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Stroo HF, Major DW, Steffan RJ, Koenigsberg SS, Ward CH. Bioaugmentation with Dehalococcoides: a Decision Guide. In: Stroo HF, Leeson A, Ward CH, editors. Bioaugmentation for Groundwater Remediation. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 117–40.

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; 2015. Entangled Whale’s Ordeal Ends As Scientists Free It.

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. Student Financial Aid: Education Can Do More to Screen Schools Before Students Receive Aid. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991 Sep. Report No.: HRD-91-145.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brecese JA. Out of Our Depth: Hyper-Extensionality and the Return of Three-Dimensional Media [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

Williams J. Disappearing Act: The Art and Fraud of Faking Your Own Death. New York Times. 2016 Aug 8;C4.

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