How to format your references using the Journal of Medicine and the Person citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medicine and the Person. 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

Gasse F (2002) Paleoclimate. Kilimanjaro’s secrets revealed. Science 298:548–549

A journal article with 2 authors

Chu S, Majumdar A (2012) Opportunities and challenges for a sustainable energy future. Nature 488:294–303

A journal article with 3 authors

Schoener TW, Spiller DA, Losos JB (2001) Predators increase the risk of catastrophic extinction of prey populations. Nature 412:183–186

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Brühl CA, Schmidt T, Pieper S, Alscher A (2013) Terrestrial pesticide exposure of amphibians: an underestimated cause of global decline? Sci Rep 3:1135

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pakurar AS, Bigbee JW (2005) Digital Histology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Fine J-D, Hintner H (2009) Life with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB): Etiology, Diagnosis, Multidisciplinary Care and Therapy. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Catthoor F, Raghavan P, Lambrechts A, et al (2010) Clustered L0 (Loop) Buffer Organization and Combination with Data Clusters. In: Raghavan P, Lambrechts A, Jayapala M, et al (eds) Ultra-Low Energy Domain-Specific Instruction-Set Processors. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 115–141

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 Medicine and the Person.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Mysterious Plumes On Mars Baffle Astronomers. In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Information Technology: Assessment of the Commerce Department’s Report on Worker Demand and Supply. 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

Mickey J (2017) Random Linear Network Coding with Added Prefix Bits. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Crow K (2001) Giving an Unexpected Twist to “Keep Off the Grass.” New York Times 148

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 Medicine and the Person
Abbreviation	J. Med. Person
ISSN (print)	2035-9411
ISSN (online)	2036-3877
Scope	Health Policy