How to format your references using the Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences. 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

[1]

Urry M. Science and gender: Scientists must work harder on equality. Nature 2015;528:471–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Oh DY, Olefsky JM. Medicine. Wnt fans the flames in obesity. Science 2010;329:397–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Polleux F, Morrow T, Ghosh A. Semaphorin 3A is a chemoattractant for cortical apical dendrites. Nature 2000;404:567–73.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Abram NJ, Gagan MK, McCulloch MT, Chappell J, Hantoro WS. Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires. Science 2003;301:952–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Madden BJ. Wealth Creation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Parsons J, Chiu D, editors. Advances in Conceptual Modeling: ER 2013 Workshops, LSAWM, MoBiD, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, WISM, DaSeM, SCME, and PhD Symposium, Hong Kong, China, November 11-13, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 8697. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bandyopadhyay S, Saha S. Point Symmetry-Based Distance Measures and Their Applications to Clustering. In: Saha S, editor. Unsupervised Classification: Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 93–123.

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 Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Chemists show how life on Earth may have started. IFLScience 2013. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/chemists-show-how-life-earth-may-have-started/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Postsecondary Education: Multiple Tax Preferences and Title IV Student Aid Programs Create a Complex Education Financing Environment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Yang SJ. Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2014.

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

[1]

Shpigel B. U.S. to Face Honduras With a Depleted Roster. New York Times 2017:B12.

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	Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Kaohsiung J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1607-551X
Scope	General Medicine