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

Yutzey KE. Cardiovascular biology: Switched at birth. Nature. 2014 May 29;509(7502):572–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Karner DB, Muller RA. PALEOCLIMATE: A Causality Problem for Milankovitch. Science. 2000 Jun 23;288(5474):2143–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cho G, Wu Y, Ackerman JL. Detection of hydroxyl ions in bone mineral by solid-state NMR spectroscopy. Science. 2003 May 16;300(5622):1123–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shi J, Krishnamoorthy G, Yang Y, Hu L, Chaturvedi N, Harilal D, et al. Mechanism of magnesium activation of calcium-activated potassium channels. Nature. 2002 Aug 22;418(6900):876–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamattina JL. Devalued and Distrusted. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Makwana VH. Transmission Line Protection Using Digital Technology. Bhalja BR, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016. XIX, 167 p. 62 illus., 1 illus. in color. (Energy Systems in Electrical Engineering).

A chapter in an edited book

Greenberg I, Xu D, Kumar D. Creating Across Time and Curved Space. In: Xu D, Kumar D, editors. Processing: Creative Coding and Generative Art in Processing 2. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2013. p. 107–47.

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

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Your Boss Could Be Spying On You Using This Device. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/your-boss-could-be-spying-on-you-using-this-device/

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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Significant Actions Needed to Address Long-standing Financial Management Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-754T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Farhad K. Development of a web-based educational resource on the most effective micronutrients in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes [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

Chira S. The Myth of Female Solidarity. New York Times. 2016 Nov 12;SR7.

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