How to format your references using the Methods of Information in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Methods of Information in Medicine. 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

Fürstner A. Teaching metathesis “simple” stereochemistry. Science 2013;341(6152):1229713

A journal article with 2 authors

Stolinsky DC, Rubinstein E. Science’s Conversation with Jiang Zemin. Science 2000;289(5479):548–549

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye Y, Meyer HH, Rapoport TA. The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol. Nature 2001;414(6864):652–656

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sun P, Zheng F, Wang K, Zhong M, Wu D, Zhu H. Electro- and magneto-modulated ion transport through graphene oxide membranes. Sci Rep 2014;4:6798

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte S. Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016

An edited book

Stephanidis C, ed. HCI International 2013 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013

A chapter in an edited book

Anglani A, Caricato P, Grieco A, Nucci F. Selecting Capacity Plan. In: Matta A, Semeraro Q, eds. Design of Advanced Manufacturing Systems: Models for Capacity Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005:191–231

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 Methods of Information in Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Scientists “Trick” Fat Into Burning More Calories. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-trick-fat-burning-more-calories/. 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

Government Accountability Office. District of Columbia Draft Emergency Supplemental Funding Request for District of Columbia Public Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; May 5, 1997. HEHS-97-116R

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lara C. Bullying victimization among adolescent students: A qualitative study [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 2015

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

Chapman MM, Vlasic B. Strong Domestic Sales Help Lift Chrysler’s Results. New York Times 2012;B3

In-text citations

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

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	Methods of Information in Medicine
Abbreviation	Methods Inf. Med.
ISSN (print)	0026-1270
Scope	Health Informatics Advanced and Specialised Nursing Health Information Management