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

Suderow HJ. PHYSICS. Opening the gate on superconductivity. Science. 2015 Dec 11;350(6266):1316–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Safinya CR, Li Y. Materials science. Bundling with x-rays. Science. 2010 Jan 29;327(5965):529–30.

A journal article with 3 authors

Esposito MS, Capelli P, Arber S. Brainstem nucleus MdV mediates skilled forelimb motor tasks. Nature. 2014 Apr 17;508(7496):351–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lee JW, Beebe K, Nangle LA, Jang J, Longo-Guess CM, Cook SA, et al. Editing-defective tRNA synthetase causes protein misfolding and neurodegeneration. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):50–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Landragin F. Man-Machine Dialogue. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

Welch WJ, Palm F, Bruley DF, Harrison DK, editors. Oxygen Transport to Tissue XXXIV. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. XXX, 385 p. 127 illus., 20 illus. in color. (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; vol. 765).

A chapter in an edited book

Budiasa IW, Kato H. A Participatory Approach to Enhance Multistakeholders’ Participation in the Saba River Basin. In: Nakagami K, Kubota J, Setiawan BI, editors. Sustainable Water Management: New Perspectives, Design, and Practices. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 67–80.

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

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Crystals Found In Siberian Crater Are Unlike Anything Else Found On Earth. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-have-found-the-third-ever-natural-quasicrystal-/

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. Transportation Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Apr. Report No.: AA-96-18(2).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gifford SC. (Re)making men, representing the Caribbean nation: Authorial individuation in works by Fred D’aguiar, Robert Antoni, and Marlon James [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 2013.

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

Shear MD. Trump Tells N.R.A.: ‘I Am Going to Come Through for You.’ New York Times. 2017 Apr 28;A17.

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