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

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

van Woesik, R. Comment on “Coral Reef Death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole Linked to Indonesian Wildfires.” Science 2004, 303, 1297; author reply 1297.

A journal article with 2 authors

McConnell, J.R.; Barton, M.K. Botany. Leaf Development Takes Shape. Science 2003, 299, 1328–1329.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shih, W.M.; Quispe, J.D.; Joyce, G.F. A 1.7-Kilobase Single-Stranded DNA That Folds into a Nanoscale Octahedron. Nature 2004, 427, 618–621.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Astakhov, S.A.; Burbanks, A.D.; Wiggins, S.; Farrelly, D. Chaos-Assisted Capture of Irregular Moons. Nature 2003, 423, 264–267.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mack, I. Energy Trading and Risk Management; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014; ISBN 9781118638286.

An edited book

Visualization and Processing of Tensors and Higher Order Descriptors for Multi-Valued Data; Westin, C.-F., Vilanova, A., Burgeth, B., Eds.; Mathematics and Visualization; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; ISBN 9783642543005.

A chapter in an edited book

Basaldella, M.; Saurin, A.; Terui, K. On the Meaning of Focalization. In Ludics, Dialogue and Interaction: PRELUDE Project - 2006-2009. Revised Selected Papers; Lecomte, A., Tronçon, S., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 78–87 ISBN 9783642192104.

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 Personalized Medicine.

Blog post

Taub, B. How Presidential Candidates Use Their Voice As A Campaign Tool (accessed on 30 October 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 Request for Assistance on Allegations From K. R. Higgins Concerning Planning Research Corporation’s Contract at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1977;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Potter, R.H. Diffusion of Oxygen and Lithium Isotopes at a Contact between the Bushveld Complex and Metasedimentary Rock: Implications for the Timescale of Phepane Dome Diapirism. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 2009.

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

Brantley, B. Beyond the Brutal Headlines on Race, Voices of Despair and Hope. New York Times 2016, C2.

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 Personalized Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Pers. Med.
ISSN (online)	2075-4426
Scope