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

Johns A. When authorship met authenticity. Nature. 2008 Feb 28;451(7182):1058–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Visscher M, Taylor T. Pressure ulcers in the hospitalized neonate: rates and risk factors. Sci Rep. 2014 Dec 11;4:7429.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pelli DG, Farell B, Moore DC. The remarkable inefficiency of word recognition. Nature. 2003 Jun 12;423(6941):752–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim S, Jin J, Kim YJ, Park IY, Kim Y, Kim SW. High-harmonic generation by resonant plasmon field enhancement. Nature. 2008 Jun 5;453(7196):757–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wasson CS. System Analysis, Design, and Development. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

Behrndt J, Förster KH, Trunk C, editors. Recent Advances in Operator Theory in Hilbert and Krein Spaces. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010. XV, 308 p. (Operator Theory: Advances and Applications; vol. 198).

A chapter in an edited book

Sanchez-Infantes D, Stephens JM. Role of Adipose Tissue in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Metabolic Syndrome. In: Orešič M, Vidal-Puig A, editors. A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic Syndrome. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 63–83.

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

Hamilton K. How Songbirds Island-Hopped Their Way From Australia To Colonize The World. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Public Works Consolidation: Jacksonville Naval Public Works Consolidation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Dec. Report No.: NSIAD-93-76FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bernstine JT. Experiences of Students Transferring from Community and Technical Colleges to a Private Nonprofit University [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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

Kelly C. A Holiday Gift Guide To a Library of Books With Local Connections. New York Times. 2013 Dec 8;A33B.

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