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

Saunders J. Physics. A glassy state of supersolid helium. Science. 2009;324:601–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brasier M, Antcliffe J. Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma. Science. 2004;305:1115–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wasan DT, Nikolov AD, Brenner H. Fluid dynamics. Droplets speeding on surfaces. Science. 2001;291:605–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bruno A, Lembo F, Novellino E, et al. Beyond radio-displacement techniques for identification of CB1 ligands: the first application of a fluorescence-quenching assay. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nölte J. ICP Emissionsspektrometrie für Praktiker. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2005.

An edited book

Pombo O, Torres JM, Symons J, et al., editors. Special Sciences and the Unity of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Parent A-S, Georgantzi N, Gheno I. Ensuring a Fruitful Future to Innovation and Research: Practical Guidance for the Involvement of Older People in Research. In: Donnelly M, Paggetti C, Nugent C, et al., eds. Impact Analysis of Solutions for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management: 10th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2012, Artiminio, Italy, June 12-15, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012:26–34.

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 D. Mike Pence, The US Vice President-Elect, Has Said He Doesn’t Believe That Smoking Kills. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mike-pence-the-us-vice-presidentelect-has-said-he-doesnt-believe-that-smoking-kills/ (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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Effort to Modernize the System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farrugia TJ. Abundance, habitat use and movement patterns of the shovelnose guitarfish (Rhinobatus productus) in a restored Southern California estuary. 2010.

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

Sutherland J. You Don’t Know Jane. New York Times. 2017;BR11.

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