How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps. 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

East R. Microbiome: Soil science comes to life. Nature. 2013;501:S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Okubo CH, McEwen AS. Fracture-controlled paleo-fluid flow in Candor Chasma, Mars. Science. 2007;315:983–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatar M, Bartke A, Antebi A. The endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like signals. Science. 2003;299:1346–51.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Elias A, Crayton SH, Warden-Rothman R, et al. Quantitative comparison of tumor delivery for multiple targeted nanoparticles simultaneously by multiplex ICP-MS. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gao J. Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Design and Device Modeling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2010.

An edited book

Lowry SF, Ciocca RG, Rettie CS, et al., editors. Learning Surgery: The Surgery Clerkship Manual. New York, NY: Springer 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Albert E, Correas J, Román-Díez G. Resource Analysis of Distributed Systems. In: Ábrahám E, Bonsangue M, Johnsen EB, eds. Theory and Practice of Formal Methods: Essays Dedicated to Frank de Boer on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016:33–46.

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 Royal Army Medical Corps.

Blog post

Andrew E. Strange, newly-discovered exoplanet defies planetary formation theories. IFLScience. 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/space/strange-newly-discovered-exoplanet-defies-planetary-formation-theories/ (accessed 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. Law Enforcement: Information on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Gang Reporting, Evaluation, and Tracking System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Penix-Tadsen P. Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production. 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

Wagner J. Dodgers’ Late-Inning Gamble Backfires in Cubs’ Timely Grand Slam. New York Times. 2016;SP2.

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 the Royal Army Medical Corps
Abbreviation	J. R. Army Med. Corps
ISSN (print)	0035-8665
ISSN (online)	2052-0468
Scope	General Medicine