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

Smith CH. Reflections on Wallace. Nature. 443(7107), 33–34 (2006).

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeller D, Booth S. Costs and benefits of regulating mercury. Science. 310(5749), 777–9; author reply 777-9 (2005).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhagat D, Samanta SK, Bhattacharya S. Efficient management of fruit pests by pheromone nanogels. Sci. Rep. 3, 1294 (2013).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tye KM, Stuber GD, de Ridder B, Bonci A, Janak PH. Rapid strengthening of thalamo-amygdala synapses mediates cue-reward learning. Nature. 453(7199), 1253–1257 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith JDH, Romanowska AB. Post-Modern Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Deshpande A, Hunter A, editors. Scalable Uncertainty Management: 4th International Conference, SUM 2010, Toulouse, France, September 27-29, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ogura K, Hiraga H, Ishii T, et al. Outcome of Treatment for Osteosarcoma of the Extremities Over the Last 20 Years: Report from 11 Referral Centers in Japan. In: Osteosarcoma. Ueda T, Kawai A (Eds.), Springer Japan, Tokyo, 45–57 (2016).

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

Andrew E. Why Is The Sun’s Outer Layer 200 Times Hotter Than Its Surface? IFLScience (2015).

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. Telecommunications: Impact of Sports Programming Costs on Cable Television Rates. 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

Viator L. Thanatos. (2017).

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

Vecsey G. A Different World Is Awaiting the U.S. New York Times, B12 (2009).

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

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