How to format your references using the Personalized Medicine citation style

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

Liedl T. Nanotechnology: Pathfinder for DNA constructs. Nature. 523(7561), 412–413 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsukevich DN, Kuzmich A. Quantum state transfer between matter and light. Science. 306(5696), 663–666 (2004).

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitney D, Westwood DA, Goodale MA. The influence of visual motion on fast reaching movements to a stationary object. Nature. 423(6942), 869–873 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Scherz PJ, Harfe BD, McMahon AP, Tabin CJ. The limb bud Shh-Fgf feedback loop is terminated by expansion of former ZPA cells. Science. 305(5682), 396–399 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kato T, Handwerker CA, Bath J. Mitigating Tin Whisker Risks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Banaszkiewicz PA, Kader DF, editors. Classic Papers in Orthopaedics. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Tsudik G. A Family of Dunces: Trivial RFID Identification and Authentication Protocols. In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies: 7th International Symposium, PET 2007 Ottawa, Canada, June 20-22, 2007 Revised Selected Papers. Borisov N, Golle P (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 45–61 (2007).

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 Personalized Medicine.

Blog post

Taub B. Smart Homes Of The Future Could Read And React To Your Emotions. IFLScience (2016).

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. Aviation Security: Better Planning Needed to Optimize Deployment of Checked Baggage Screening Systems. 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

Young JL. A community college’s loss of accreditation: A case study. (2010).

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

Kelly M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Political Memo; Republicans Re-Think “Family Values” Focus. New York Times, A20 (1992).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Personalized Medicine
Abbreviation	Per. Med.
ISSN (print)	1741-0541
ISSN (online)	1744-828X
Scope	Molecular Medicine General Medicine Pharmacology