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

Walton KS. Inorganic chemistry: Movies of a growth mechanism. Nature. 2015 Jul 30;523(7562):535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iijima N, Iwasaki A. T cell memory. A local macrophage chemokine network sustains protective tissue-resident memory CD4 T cells. Science. 2014 Oct 3;346(6205):93–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitfield CW, Cziko AM, Robinson GE. Gene expression profiles in the brain predict behavior in individual honey bees. Science. 2003 Oct 10;302(5643):296–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lareau LF, Inada M, Green RE, Wengrod JC, Brenner SE. Unproductive splicing of SR genes associated with highly conserved and ultraconserved DNA elements. Nature. 2007 Apr 19;446(7138):926–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berto F. There’s Something about Gödel. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2009.

An edited book

Syme D. Expert F# 3.0. Granicz A, Cisternino A, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2012. XXII, 638 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Boone T. Organizing for Sustainability: Exploratory Analysis of the Healthcare Industry. In: Boone T, Jayaraman V, Ganeshan R, editors. Sustainable Supply Chains: Models, Methods, and Public Policy Implications. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 37–48. (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science).

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. Hybrid Material May Help Crush Solar Cell Efficiency Record. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Waste From School Lunches. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: RCED-96-128R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Britt CA. Dying in America: A historical analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia [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

Shpigel B. Return of Jets’ Decker Is Clouded by Injury. New York Times. 2016 Sep 30;D6.

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

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