How to format your references using the Obesity Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obesity 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

Marx, V., 2014. A deep look at synaptic dynamics. Nature 515, 293–297.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sankar, P., Cho, M.K., 2002. Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation. Science 298, 1337–1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irwin, D.E., Bensch, S., Price, T.D., 2001. Speciation in a ring. Nature 409, 333–337.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Qi, Z., Pei, G., Chen, L., Zhang, W., 2014. Single-cell analysis reveals gene-expression heterogeneity in syntrophic dual-culture of Desulfovibrio vulgaris with Methanosarcina barkeri. Sci. Rep. 4, 7478.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gregory, J., 2014. Central Counterparties. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Thorup, M. (Ed.), 2016. Intellectual History of Economic Normativities. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Bückström, T., Birzniece, V., Fernández, G., Johansson, I.-M., Kask, K., Lindblad, C., Lundgren, P., Nyberg, S., Ragagnin, G., Sundström-Poromaa, I., Strömberg, J., Turkmen, S., Wang, M.-D., van Broekhoven, F., van Wingen, G., 2008. Neuroactive Steroids: Effects on Cognitive Functions, in: Ritsner, M.S., Weizman, A. (Eds.), Neuroactive Steroids in Brain Function, Behavior and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Novel Strategies for Research and Treatment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 103–121.

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 Obesity Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. Ask A Physicist To Speak At Your Funeral [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. ADP Budget: Analysis of SSA’s Fiscal Year 1988 Information Technology Systems Request (No. IMTEC-87-37). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hasan, S.N., 2012. Design and optimization of 2012 Formula SAE chassis with finite element analysis for CSULB (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Cooper, M., 2017. Misty Copeland Named A Face of Estée Lauder. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Marx, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Marx, 2014; Sankar and Cho, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Sankar and Cho, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Qi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Obesity Medicine
Abbreviation	Obes. Med.
ISSN (print)	2451-8476
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health