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

Koriat A (2012) When are two heads better than one and why? Science 336:360–362

A journal article with 2 authors

Sloan PA, Palmer RE (2005) Two-electron dissociation of single molecules by atomic manipulation at room temperature. Nature 434:367–371

A journal article with 3 authors

Ranganathan R, Cannon SC, Horvitz HR (2000) MOD-1 is a serotonin-gated chloride channel that modulates locomotory behaviour in C. elegans. Nature 408:470–475

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Falk D, Hildebolt C, Smith K, et al (2005) The brain of LB1, Homo floresiensis. Science 308:242–245

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krichen S, Chaouachi J (2014) Graph-Related Optimization and Decision Support Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Deng RH, Feng T (2013) Information Security Practice and Experience: 9th International Conference, ISPEC 2013, Lanzhou, China, May 12-14, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Enriquez A, Tomecki KJ (2008) Dermatological Diseases Affecting the Genitourinary System. In: Potts JM (ed) Genitourinary Pain And Inflammation: Diagnosis And Management. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 57–76

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

Andrew E (2016) Why More Cities Need To Add Up The Economic Value Of Trees. 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) Goals 2000: Flexible Funding Supports State and Local Education Reform. 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

Torres-Partida A (2014) Bridging the gap between faith based leaders and mental health professionals. 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

Gordon MR, Erdbrink T (2017) U.S. Shoots Down Syrian Warplane; Iran Launches Missiles Into Syria. New York Times A10

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