How to format your references using the Medical Engineering and Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medical Engineering and Physics. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Butte AJ. Medicine. The ultimate model organism. Science 2008;320:325–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Morel FMM, Price NM. The biogeochemical cycles of trace metals in the oceans. Science 2003;300:944–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nuth JA 3rd, Hill HG, Kletetschka G. Determining the ages of comets from the fraction of crystalline dust. Nature 2000;406:275–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Redman RS, Sheehan KB, Stout RG, Rodriguez RJ, Henson JM. Thermotolerance generated by plant/fungal symbiosis. Science 2002;298:1581.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sanders S. Seizures in Dogs and Cats. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Chatterjee S. Analog Circuit Design Techniques at 0.5 V. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hepburn HR, Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O. Communication by Vibrations and Scents in the Comb. In: Pirk CWW, Duangphakdee O, editors. Honeybee Nests: Composition, Structure, Function, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 79–103.

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 Medical Engineering and Physics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Children with Good Memories are Better Liars, Research Suggests. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/children-good-memories-are-better-liars-research-suggests/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Review of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Actions To Carry Out the Provisions of the National Cooley’s Anemia Control Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bobadilla J. Helping at-risk youth through a preventative program. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

[1]

Gustines GG. At School, a ‘March’ Through the Civil Rights Movement in Visual Detail. New York Times 2016:C5.

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	Medical Engineering and Physics
Abbreviation	Med. Eng. Phys.
ISSN (print)	1350-4533
Scope	Biophysics Biomedical Engineering