How to format your references using the Personalized Medicine Universe citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Personalized Medicine Universe. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

Kerr RA. GREENHOUSE WARMING: Dueling Models: Future U.S. Climate Uncertain. Science 2000;288:2113.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Laughlin SB, Sejnowski TJ. Communication in neuronal networks. Science 2003;301:1870–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Reichman OJ, Jones MB, Schildhauer MP. Challenges and opportunities of open data in ecology. Science 2011;331:703–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lamb JB, Willis BL, Fiorenza EA, Couch CS, Howard R, Rader DN, et al. Plastic waste associated with disease on coral reefs. Science 2018;359:460–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Young S, Bramham J. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Dufrénot G, Jawadi F, Louhichi W, editors. Market Microstructure and Nonlinear Dynamics: Keeping Financial Crisis in Context. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hatami-Marbini H, Picu CR. Modeling the Mechanics of Semiflexible Biopolymer Networks: Non-affine Deformation and Presence of Long-range Correlations. In: Sun B, editor. Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 119–45.

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 Universe.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Robots Are Coming For Your Job! Why Digital Literacy Is So Important For The Jobs Of The Future. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robots-are-coming-your-job-why-digital-literacy-so-important-jobs-future/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: Competitive Impact of Restructuring the International Satellite Organizations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bennett MA. The Underrepresentation of Registered Nurses in Hospital CEO Positions: A Grounded Theory Study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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

[1]

Poniewozik J, Hale M. Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back. New York Times 2017:AR29.

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 Universe
Abbreviation	Pers. Med. Universe
ISSN (print)	2186-4950
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