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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Formosan Medical Association. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Adam D. Plans for GM livestock fail the poor. Nature. 2001 May 24;411(6836):403.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Patrinos AAN, Bradley RA. Environment. Energy and technology policies for managing carbon risk. Science. 2009 Aug 21;325(5943):949–50.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Segawa Y, Yamashita M, Nozaki K. Boryllithium: isolation, characterization, and reactivity as a boryl anion. Science. 2006 Oct 6;314(5796):113–5.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
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Gong H, Li J, Xu A, Tang Y, Ji W, Gao R, et al. An electron transfer path connects subunits of a mycobacterial respiratory supercomplex. Science. 2018 Oct 25;

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Morsali A, Hashemi L. Main Group Metal Coordination Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.
An edited book
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Gonthier G, Norrish M, editors. Certified Programs and Proofs: Third International Conference, CPP 2013, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, December 11-13, 2013, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2013. XII, 309 p. 44 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 8307).
A chapter in an edited book
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Naeem MA, Dobbie G, Weber G. X-HYBRIDJOIN for Near-Real-Time Data Warehousing. In: Fernandes AAA, Gray AJG, Belhajjame K, editors. Advances in Databases: 28th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 28, Manchester, UK, July 12-14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 33–47. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Formosan Medical Association.

Blog post
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Andrews R. Your Irises Are Lying To You [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/irises-lying-you/

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
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Government Accountability Office. Mass Transit: Challenges in Evaluating, Overseeing, and Funding Major Transit Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Mar. Report No.: T-RCED-00-104.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Bilbrey J. The Positive Effects Extrinsic Motivation Can Have on Intrinsic Motivation in a Math Classroom [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2017.

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
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Crow K. A Prickly Mason-Dixon Line in the Village. New York Times. 2002 Nov 3;146.

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 titleJournal of the Formosan Medical Association
AbbreviationJ. Formos. Med. Assoc.
ISSN (print)0929-6646
ScopeGeneral Medicine

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