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]

Clayton, J., 2003, “Going into Production,” Nature, 426(6967), p. 727.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ize, B., and Palmer, T., 2006, “Microbiology. Mycobacteria’s Export Strategy,” Science, 313(5793), pp. 1583–1584.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zhang, J., Lu, H., and Huang, L., 2014, “Calciphytoliths (Calcium Oxalate Crystals) Analysis for the Identification of Decayed Tea Plants (Camellia Sinensis L.),” Sci. Rep., 4, p. 6703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Reyes-Garcia, V., Godoy, R., Vadez, V., Apaza, L., Byron, E., Huanca, T., Leonard, W. R., Pérez, E., and Wilkie, D., 2003, “Ethnobotanical Knowledge Shared Widely among Tsimane’ Amerindians, Bolivia,” Science, 299(5613), p. 1707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brown, M. A., and Kaplan, L., 2012, The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Enokido, T., Yan, L., Xiao, B., Kim, D., Dai, Y., and Yang, L. T., eds., 2005, Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing – EUC 2005 Workshops: EUC 2005 Workshops: UISW, NCUS, SecUbiq, USN, and TAUES, Nagasaki, Japan, December 6-9, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Limongelli, C., Sciarrone, F., Temperini, M., and Vaste, G., 2009, “Virtual Cultural Tour Personalization by Means of an Adaptive E-Learning System: A Case Study,” Visioning and Engineering the Knowledge Society. A Web Science Perspective: Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2009, Chania, Crete, Greece, September 16-18, 2009. Proceedings, M.D. Lytras, E. Damiani, J.M. Carroll, R.D. Tennyson, D. Avison, A. Naeve, A. Dale, P. Lefrere, F. Tan, J. Sipior, and G. Vossen, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 40–49.

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]

Fang, J., 2015, “Mass Extinction Helped Preserve the Tracks of Swimming Reptiles,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mass-extinction-helped-preserve-tracks-swimming-reptiles/. [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, 1980, The Road to a Billion Dollar Saving: A Team Effort, 113269, 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]

Marquez, H. H., 2017, “Social Capital, Academics, and Sense of Belonging among High School Foster Youth,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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]

Schwartz, J., 2016, “Measure in Florida That Claims to Support Solar Power Could Discourage It,” New York Times, p. A17.

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)