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

Crim FF. Chemistry. Making energy count. Science. 2007;316:1707–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Enriquez J, Gullans S. Olympics: Genetically enhanced Olympics are coming. Nature. 2012;487:297.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song B-S, Noda S, Asano T. Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science. 2003;300:1537.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ji Q, Luo Z-X, Yuan C-X, et al. The earliest known eutherian mammal. Nature. 2002;416:816–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiMarzio JF. Beginning Android® Programming with Android Studio. Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.

An edited book

Bramer M, editor. Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice II: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 12: IFIP AI 2008 Stream, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy. Boston, MA: Springer US 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu Y, Zhang L, Tao F, et al. Modeling and High Performance Computing Analysis of Three-Dimensional Electromagnetic Environment. In: Xiao T, Zhang L, Ma S, eds. System Simulation and Scientific Computing: International Conference, ICSC 2012, Shanghai, China, October 27-30, 2012. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012:25–33.

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

Andrews R. China And Japan Are Harvesting ‘Combustible Ice’ From The Seafloor. IFLScience. 2017. (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. Payroll Activities, Atlanta Postal Data Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jorge MH. Relationships Among Poverty, Financial Services, Human Capital, Risk Coping, and Natural Resources: Evidence from El Salvador and Bolivia. 2004.

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

Greenhouse L. Rights of Unions and Nonmembers Vie at Court. New York Times. 2007;A24.

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