How to format your references using the Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices. 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

[1]

Smaglik P. Gene therapy institute denies that errors led to trial death. Nature 2000;403:820.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wong M, Munro S. Membrane trafficking. The specificity of vesicle traffic to the Golgi is encoded in the golgin coiled-coil proteins. Science 2014;346:1256898.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Thompson JK, Peterson MR, Freeman RD. Single-neuron activity and tissue oxygenation in the cerebral cortex. Science 2003;299:1070–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Grashoff C, Hoffman BD, Brenner MD, Zhou R, Parsons M, Yang MT, et al. Measuring mechanical tension across vinculin reveals regulation of focal adhesion dynamics. Nature 2010;466:263–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Alvarez PJJ, Illman WA. Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Sickles RC, Horrace WC, editors. Festschrift in Honor of Peter Schmidt: Econometric Methods and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thomas MOJ, Palmer JM. Teaching with Digital Technology: Obstacles and Opportunities. In: Clark-Wilson A, Robutti O, Sinclair N, editors. The Mathematics Teacher in the Digital Era: An International Perspective on Technology Focused Professional Development, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014, p. 71–89.

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 Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Remarkable New CRISPR System Targets RNA, Rather Than DNA. 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Contract With Education, Training, and Research Sciences Corporation for Processing Applications To Serve in the VISTA Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Delisio JP. Fighting For A Cure: The Berry Plan’s Impact on Civilian Medical Research. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Bush Plan to Try Detainees. New York Times 2006:A1.

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	Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices
ISSN (print)	2590-0935
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