How to format your references using the Med citation style

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

Schmelcher, P. (2012). Chemistry. Molecule formation in ultrahigh magnetic fields. Science 337, 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vaughan, D.G., and Arthern, R. (2007). Climate change. Why is it hard to predict the future of ice sheets? Science 315, 1503–1504.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sansom, R.S., Gabbott, S.E., and Purnell, M.A. (2010). Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation. Nature 463, 797–800.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Michailov, G.V., Sereda, M.W., Brinkmann, B.G., Fischer, T.M., Haug, B., Birchmeier, C., Role, L., Lai, C., Schwab, M.H., and Nave, K.-A. (2004). Axonal neuregulin-1 regulates myelin sheath thickness. Science 304, 700–703.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keene, A. (2013). Keene on the Market (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Seidl, C. (2013). Tax Progression in OECD Countries: An Integrative Analysis of Tax Schedules and Income Distributions K. Pogorelskiy and S. Traub, eds. (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Kaltschmitt, M., Streicher, W., and Wiese, A. (2007). Solar Thermal Power Plants. In Renewable Energy: Technology, and Environment Economics, M. Kaltschmitt, W. Streicher, and A. Wiese, eds. (Springer), pp. 171–228.

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 Med.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2017). Distinct Shapes Of Ancient Skulls Indicates Multiple Migrations Into Early Americas. IFLScience.

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 (1991). U.S. Communications Policy: Issues for the 1990s (U.S. Government Printing Office).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whidby, M.A. (2012). Citation handling: Processing citation texts in scientific documents.

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

Walsh, M.W. (2012). New Ideas On Pensions: Use States. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^2,4,6,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Med
ISSN (online)	2666-6340
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