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

Dillehay TD. Archaeology. Climate and human migrations. Science. 2002 Oct 25;298(5594):764–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kimmins S, Sassone-Corsi P. Chromatin remodelling and epigenetic features of germ cells. Nature. 2005 Mar 31;434(7033):583–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Djuranovic S, Nahvi A, Green R. miRNA-mediated gene silencing by translational repression followed by mRNA deadenylation and decay. Science. 2012 Apr 13;336(6078):237–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mattiucci N, Bloemer MJ, Aközbek N, D’Aguanno G. Impedance matched thin metamaterials make metals absorbing. Sci Rep. 2013 Nov 13;3:3203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cooper N, Forrest K, Cramp P. Essential Guide to Generic Skills. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Richt JA, Webby RJ, editors. Swine Influenza. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. X, 303 p. (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; vol. 370).

A chapter in an edited book

Gelmetti C. La dermatologia e la venereologia dal XIX al XX secolo. In: Gelmetti C, editor. Storia della Dermatologia e della Venereologia in Italia. Milano: Springer; 2015. p. 103–41.

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

Andrew E. Legal Highs – A Look At The Growing Use Of Synthetic Drugs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/legal-highs-look-growing-use-synthetic-drugs/

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. Aviation Security: Factors Could Limit the Effectiveness of the Transportation Security Administration’s Efforts to Secure Aerial Advertising Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Mar. Report No.: GAO-04-499R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Selby C. With|out [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. One Man, Two Courts. New York Times. 2010 Apr 11;WK11.

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