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

Ricklefs RE. Cladogenesis and morphological diversification in passerine birds. Nature. 2004 Jul 15;430(6997):338–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffelt SB, de Visser KE. Cancer: Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature. 2014 Mar 6;507(7490):48–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zabow G, Dodd SJ, Koretsky AP. Shape-changing magnetic assemblies as high-sensitivity NMR-readable nanoprobes. Nature. 2015 Apr 2;520(7545):73–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Huang Y, Mao K, Chen X, Sun MA, Kawabe T, Li W, et al. S1P-dependent interorgan trafficking of group 2 innate lymphoid cells supports host defense. Science. 2018 Jan 5;359(6371):114–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Botto F. Dictionary of e-Business. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2003.

An edited book

Feller J, Fitzgerald B, Scacchi W, Sillitti A, editors. Open Source Development, Adoption and Innovation: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software, June 11–14, 2007, Limerick, Ireland. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. XXVIII, 392 p. (IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing; vol. 234).

A chapter in an edited book

Ralston NVC, Azenkeng A, Raymond LJ. Mercury-Dependent Inhibition of Selenoenzymes and Mercury Toxicity. In: Ceccatelli S, Aschner M, editors. Methylmercury and Neurotoxicity. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. p. 91–9.

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

Davis J. After Hottest Year On Record, Ocean Warming Is Now “Unstoppable” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hottest-year-record-ocean-warming-now-unstoppable/

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. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Sep. Report No.: 131721.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coulibaly I. Influence of Gender and Age on the Performance of a PBIS program: Quantitative Analysis of Secondary Data from a Midwestern Suburban Public Middle School [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2017.

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

Crow K. Sealed Since ’88, A Condo Garage May Soon See Some Daylight. New York Times. 2001 May 6;144.

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

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