How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science. 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

Zeng N. Atmospheric science. Drought in the Sahel. Science. 2003 Nov 7;302(5647):999–1000.

A journal article with 2 authors

Demirdöven N, Deutch J. Hybrid cars now, fuel cell cars later. Science. 2004 Aug 13;305(5686):974–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abe E, Pennycook SJ, Tsai AP. Direct observation of a local thermal vibration anomaly in a quasicrystal. Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):347–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Baba H, Aziz F, Kaifu Y, Suwa G, Kono RT, Jacob T. Homo erectus calvarium from the Pleistocene of Java. Science. 2003 Feb 28;299(5611):1384–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie PR, Keough GE. An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Alladi K, Bhargava M, Savitt D, Tiep PH, editors. Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. IX, 298 p. (Developments in Mathematics; vol. 31).

A chapter in an edited book

Alkan BB, Atakan C. Comparison of Principal Component Analysis Biplots Based on Different Robust Covariance Matrix Estimates. In: Banerjee S, Erçetin ŞŞ, editors. Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 29–34. (Springer Proceedings in Complexity).

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 New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. What Happens When You Drop A Magnet Through A Copper Tube? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-happens-when-you-drop-magnet-through-copper-tube/

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. Truck Safety: The Safety of Longer Combination Vehicles Is Unknown. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: RCED-92-66.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kuqi K. A matrix-Based Method for Optimizing the User Interface Design of Electronic Medical Record Systems [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2013.

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

Brantley B. A Souped-Up Revival Roars in London. New York Times. 2017 Apr 30;C5.

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	New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
ISSN (print)	1171-0195
Scope