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]

Bohannon J. The Gonzo Scientist. Flunking Spore. Science 2008;322:531.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dulvy NK, Kindsvater HK. Ecology: Recovering the potential of coral reefs. Nature 2015;520:304–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Leone A, Ferrari PF, Palagi E. Different yawns, different functions? Testing social hypotheses on spontaneous yawning in Theropithecus gelada. Sci Rep 2014;4:4010.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kurz T, Pintard L, Willis JH, Hamill DR, Gönczy P, Peter M, et al. Cytoskeletal regulation by the Nedd8 ubiquitin-like protein modification pathway. Science 2002;295:1294–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bailly P. Materials and Structures under Shock and Impact. Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Theeramunkong T, Kijsirikul B, Cercone N, Ho T-B, editors. Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 13th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2009 Bangkok, Thailand, April 27-30, 2009 Proceedings. vol. 5476. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rooney J. William Kingdon Clifford (1845–1879). In: Ceccarelli M, editor. Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies Part 1, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 79–116.

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]

Andrew E. Measles Outbreak Hits New York City. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/measles-outbreak-hits-new-york-city/ (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. Air Force Decision Not To Purchase Certain Automatic Data Processing Equipment Located at Its Environmental Technical Applications Center, Washington, D.C. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

De La Cruz E. School social work programing for an elementary school: A grant writing project. 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]

Vecsey G. Leyland Needs No Advice. New York Times 2011:B12.

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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