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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical Devices. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Zasloff, M., 2002, “Antimicrobial Peptides of Multicellular Organisms,” Nature, 415(6870), pp. 389–395.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hood, L., and Galas, D., 2003, “The Digital Code of DNA,” Nature, 421(6921), pp. 444–448.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Blin, A., Cissé, I., and Bockelmann, U., 2014, “Electronic Hybridization Detection in Microarray Format and DNA Genotyping,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 4194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Loqué, D., Lalonde, S., Looger, L. L., von Wirén, N., and Frommer, W. B., 2007, “A Cytosolic Trans-Activation Domain Essential for Ammonium Uptake,” Nature, 446(7132), pp. 195–198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lunn, G., 2005, HPLC Methods for Recently Approved Pharmaceuticals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Walde, P., ed., 2005, Prebiotic Chemistry, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Afifi, H., Kyriazanos, D., Mirzadeh, S., Pallares, J. J., Pashalidis, A., Prasad, N. R., Stango, A., and Stoter, J., 2010, “Security in PNs,” My Personal Adaptive Global NET (MAGNET), R. Prasad, ed., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 245–282.

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 Medical Devices.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014, “Man Receives Facial Reconstruction With Help From 3D Printer,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/man-receives-facial-reconstruction-help-3d-printer/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 2000, Naval Ship Donation: Selection Decision for U.S.S. New Jersey Was Objective, but Selection Process Can Be Strengthened, GAO-01-31, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jha, J. S., 2013, “[3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate,” Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University.

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

[1]

Reed, S., and de la MERCED, M. J., 2017, “London and New York Duke It Out For $2 Trillion Saudi Aramco Listing,” New York Times, p. B3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Medical Devices
Abbreviation	J. Med. Device.
ISSN (print)	1932-6181
ISSN (online)	1932-619X
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous)