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

Peik, E., 2005. Physics. Logical spectroscopy. Science 309, 710–711.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, S., Bryant, D.A., 2011. The tricarboxylic acid cycle in cyanobacteria. Science 334, 1551–1553.

A journal article with 3 authors

Iguchi, I., Yamaguchi, T., Sugimoto, A., 2001. Diamagnetic activity above Tc as a precursor to superconductivity in La2-xSrxCuO4 thin films. Nature 412, 420–423.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Murayama, M., Howe, J.M., Hidaka, H., Takaki, S., 2002. Atomic-level observation of disclination dipoles in mechanically milled, nanocrystalline Fe. Science 295, 2433–2435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Daïan, J.-F., 2014. Equilibrium and Transfer in Porous Media 2. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Choi, S.H., Kasama, K. (Eds.), 2014. Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Doan, K., Sinanovic, M., 2012. IFRS in der Kreuzfahrtindustrie Problematik der Ertragserfassung, Abschreibung, Rückstellung und Zweckgesellschaften, in: Papathanassis, A., Breitner, M.H., Schoen, C., Guhr, N. (Eds.), Cruise Management: Information and Decision Support Systems. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, pp. 75–103.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Cassini Snaps Images Of Weird “Ravioli Moon” Pan Orbiting Saturn [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-snaps-images-of-weird-ravioli-moon-pan-orbiting-saturn/ (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. Early Childhood Education: Information on Costs and Services at High-Quality Centers (No. HRD-89-130FS). 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

ELBoushi, T.C., 2010. Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study (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

Pilon, M., 2012. Inspiring Horse Honored. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peik, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Peik, 2005; Zhang and Bryant, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Bryant, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Murayama et al., 2002)

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