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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Macedonian 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	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

Kraus VB. Osteoarthritis: The zinc link. Nature. 2014 Mar 27;507(7493):441–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shenoy SK, Rockman HA. Cardiovascular biology: heart fails without pump partner. Nature. 2011 Sep 28;477(7366):546–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mills CE, Robins JM, Lipsitch M. Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature. 2004 Dec 16;432(7019):904–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mangan PR, Harrington LE, O’Quinn DB, Helms WS, Bullard DC, Elson CO, et al. Transforming growth factor-beta induces development of the T(H)17 lineage. Nature. 2006 May 11;441(7090):231–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow J, Fisher S, Mondragon-Gilmore J, Casson A, Orton PZ, Nathan HD, et al. CliffsNotes® CSET®. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Rynne BP. Linear Functional Analysis. Youngson MA, editor. London: Springer; 2008. X, 324 p. 6 illus. (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series).

A chapter in an edited book

Manente M, Minghetti V, Mingotto E. The Analysis of European Reporting Systems for Responsible Tourism and CSR. In: Minghetti V, Mingotto E, editors. Responsible Tourism and CSR: Assessment Systems for Sustainable Development of SMEs in Tourism. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 33–98. (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance).

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 Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

Blog post

Hale T. Mass Grave In Germany Reveals The Bloody Death Of 47 Soldiers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mass-grave-in-germany-reveals-the-bloody-death-of-47-soldiers/

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. Department of Energy’s Consolidation of Information Processing Activities Needs More Attention. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 May. Report No.: EMD-78-60.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prakash A. Empire on the Seine: Surveillance, Citizenship, and North African Migrants in Paris (1925–1975) [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 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

Kishkovsky S. The Czar Didn’t Sleep Here. New York Times. 2003 Jan 9;F1.

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	Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Maced. J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1857-5749
ISSN (online)	1857-5773
Scope	General Medicine