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

Franson, J.D., 2013. Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer. Science 339, 767–768.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bermingham, E., Dick, C., 2001. Ecology and evolution. The Inga--newcomer or museum antiquity? Science 293, 2214–2216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sund, J., Andér, M., Aqvist, J., 2010. Principles of stop-codon reading on the ribosome. Nature 465, 947–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Vasefi, F., MacKinnon, N., Saager, R.B., Durkin, A.J., Chave, R., Lindsley, E.H., Farkas, D.L., 2014. Polarization-sensitive hyperspectral imaging in vivo: a multimode dermoscope for skin analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4924.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sailor, M.J., 2011. Porous Silicon in Practice. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

McGowan, B.L., Palmer, R.T., Wood, J.L., Hibbler, D.F. (Eds.), 2016. Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Le Grand, G., Barrau, E., 2012. Prior Checking, a Forerunner to Privacy Impact Assessments, in: Wright, D., Hert, P.D. (Eds.), Privacy Impact Assessment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 97–116.

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. The tax-funded assault on evolution in the classroom [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tax-funded-assault-evolution-classroom/ (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, 1989. Special Education: Congressional Action Needed to Improve Chapter 1 Handicapped Program (No. HRD-89-54). 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

Richardson, R.S., 2015. A phenomenological hermeneutic study of radiology (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Mueller, B., Baker, A.L., 2016. In the South Bronx, a Police Precinct Where Murder Persists. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Franson, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Bermingham and Dick, 2001; Franson, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Bermingham and Dick, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Vasefi 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