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]

Le Maho Y. Nature and function. Nature 2002;416:21.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Houk KN, Cheong PH-Y. Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts. Nature 2008;455:309–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schneider DM, Nelson A, Mooney R. A synaptic and circuit basis for corollary discharge in the auditory cortex. Nature 2014;513:189–94.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pangala SR, Enrich-Prast A, Basso LS, Peixoto RB, Bastviken D, Hornibrook ERC, et al. Erratum: Large emissions from floodplain trees close the Amazon methane budget. Nature 2018;553:366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reason B, Løvlie L, Brand Flu M. Service Design for Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

O’Donohue WT, editor. Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Disease in Adolescence: A Guide to Integrative Care. New York, NY: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bucsics A, Sauermann R, Nell-Duxneuner V. Current Topics in Drug Reimbursement. In: Müller M, editor. Clinical Pharmacology: Current Topics and Case Studies, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 33–48.

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. New Data Suggests Global Ocean Warming Rates May Have Been Severely Underestimated. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/new-data-suggests-global-ocean-warming-rates-have-been-severely-underestimated/ (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. Issues Related to an Independent FAA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Olanisa EL. Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

Walsh MW. MetLife Will Repatriate an Offshore Reinsurance Unit to Mollify Regulators. New York Times 2013:B4.

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

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