How to format your references using the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). 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

Montoya JP. Ocean science. Old new nitrogen. Science. 2009;323(5911):219-220.

A journal article with 2 authors

Polka JK, Krukenberg KA. Making science a desirable career. Science. 2014;346(6215):1422.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rich PD, Liaw HP, Lee AK. Place cells. Large environments reveal the statistical structure governing hippocampal representations. Science. 2014;345(6198):814-817.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Subramani A, Alsidawi S, Jagannathan S, et al. The brain microenvironment negatively regulates miRNA-768-3p to promote K-ras expression and lung cancer metastasis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2392.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nash J. Diabetes and Wellbeing. Wiley-Blackwell; 2013.

An edited book

Allahbadia GN, Nitzschke M, eds. Minimal Stimulation and Natural Cycle In Vitro Fertilization. 1st ed. 2015. Springer India; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang B, Li J, Guo B. Research on Simulation of Inter-satellite Link Based on the Navigating Constellation. In: Shen R, Qian W, eds. Proceedings of the 27th Conference of Spacecraft TT&C Technology in China: Wider Space for TT&C. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer; 2015:37-47.

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 the American Medical Directors Association.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Train Immune Cells To Destroy Hidden HIV. IFLScience.

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. Legislative Developments. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wolff A. PRIDE: A Psycho-Educational Peer Support Group for LGBTIQ Youth: A Grant Proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Kishkovsky S. Investors in Russian Gas Venture Clash. New York Times. May 31, 2008:C8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the American Medical Directors Association
ISSN (print)	1525-8610
ISSN (online)	1538-9375
Scope