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]

VanNimwegen, R., 2007, “Award-Winning Commitment,” Nature, 447(7144), p. 610.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bandyopadhyay, P. R., and Hansen, J. C., 2013, “Breakup and Then Makeup: A Predictive Model of How Cilia Self-Regulate Hardness for Posture Control,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 1956.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bode, F., Sachs, F., and Franz, M. R., 2001, “Tarantula Peptide Inhibits Atrial Fibrillation,” Nature, 409(6816), pp. 35–36.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wang, X.-F., Feng, Y., Chen, Y., Gao, B. L., and Han, B.-H., 2014, “A Meta-Analysis of Olanzapine for the Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting,” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 4813.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ahmad, K., 2005, Sourcebook of ATM and IP Internetworking, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Setubal, J. C., and Verjovski-Almeida, S., eds., 2005, Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shi, Y., Wu, G., Song, Z., and Shen, D., 2012, “Dense Deformation Reconstruction via Sparse Coding,” Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: Third International Workshop, MLMI 2012, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2012, Nice, France, October 1, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, F. Wang, D. Shen, P. Yan, and K. Suzuki, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 36–44.

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., 2015, “No More Science Fiction: 3D Holographic Images,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/no-more-science-fiction-3d-holographic-images/. [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, 1977, A Selected Bibliography on Computer Software Conversion, 090884, 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]

Jackson, M. E., 2010, “Where Are the Parents: The Parent’s Perspective of Parental Involvement in Education,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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]

Haughney, C., and Carr, D., 2013, “Boston Globe Is Another Metro Paper Gone Local,” New York Times, p. B1.

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)