How to format your references using the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mount Sinai Journal of 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

Mantovani A. Investigating T-cell memory. Nature. 2000 Sep 7;407(6800):40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kriwacki RW, Yoon MK. Cell biology. Fishing in the nuclear pore. Science. 2011 Jul 1;333(6038):44–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giannini A, Saravanan R, Chang P. Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales. Science. 2003 Nov 7;302(5647):1027–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Root TL, Price JT, Hall KR, Schneider SH, Rosenzweig C, Pounds JA. Fingerprints of global warming on wild animals and plants. Nature. 2003 Jan 2;421(6918):57–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peat J, Elliott E, Baur L, Keena V. Scientific Writing Easy when you know how. London, WC: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2002.

An edited book

Hosking RJ. Fundamental Fluid Mechanics and Magnetohydrodynamics. 1st ed. 2016. Dewar RL, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016. XIV, 279 p. 21 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Groeninckx G, Harrats C, Vanneste M, Everaert V. Crystallization, Micro- and Nano-structure, and Melting Behavior of Polymer Blends. In: Utracki LA, Wilkie CA, editors. Polymer Blends Handbook. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 291–446.

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 Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine.

Blog post

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Scientists Plan To Drill Into Earthquake Fault Line From The Bottom Of A Gold Mine. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-plan-to-drill-into-earthquake-fault-line-from-the-bottom-of-a-gold-mine/

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. Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Several Challenges Could Arise in Administering a Subsidy Program for DTV Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 May. Report No.: GAO-05-623T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monterosa VM. Digital Citizenship District-Wide: Examining the Organizational Evolution of an Initiative [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Billard M. Think Green and Young. New York Times. 2010 Aug 5;E6.

In-text citations

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

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	Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
Abbreviation	Mt. Sinai J. Med.
ISSN (print)	0027-2507
ISSN (online)	1931-7581
Scope	General Medicine