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]

Lynden-Bell D. Retrospective. Allan Sandage (1926-2010). Science 2010;330:1763.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burgoyne CB, Lea SEG. Psychology. Money is material. Science 2006;314:1091–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gerke J, Lorenz K, Cohen B. Genetic interactions between transcription factors cause natural variation in yeast. Science 2009;323:498–501.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Luyssaert S, Schulze E-D, Börner A, Knohl A, Hessenmöller D, Law BE, et al. Old-growth forests as global carbon sinks. Nature 2008;455:213–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samonas M. Financial Forecasting, Analysis, and Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Zhang Z, Wu L, Xu W, Du D-Z, editors. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 8th International Conference, COCOA 2014, Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, December 19-21, 2014, Proceedings. vol. 8881. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fan W, Bouguila N. Nonparametric Localized Feature Selection via a Dirichlet Process Mixture of Generalized Dirichlet Distributions. In: Huang T, Zeng Z, Li C, Leung CS, editors. Neural Information Processing: 19th International Conference, ICONIP 2012, Doha, Qatar, November 12-15, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 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 Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How Rosetta Made An Epic Journey Through Space And Overcame Incredible Challenges. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-rosetta-made-epic-journey-through-space-and-overcame-incredible-challenges/ (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. Commercial Aviation: A Framework for Considering Federal Financial Assistance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Garcia R. The California State University education doctorate: Public policy for the public good. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. As Colts Rested, Jets Awoke. New York Times 2010:D1.

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