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 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

[1]

Crutzen PJ. A late change to the programme. Nature 2004;429:349.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhou Z, Zheng S. The missing link in Ginkgo evolution. Nature 2003;423:821–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hill EW, Jobling MA, Bradley DG. Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins. Nature 2000;404:351–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Pan J-W, Gasparoni S, Ursin R, Weihs G, Zeilinger A. Experimental entanglement purification of arbitrary unknown states. Nature 2003;423:417–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Frikha M. Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Håkanson L. Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea: Present Situation, Nutrient Transport Processes, Remedial Strategies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang JG, Yang J. Targeting Sophisticated Investors—Private Placement Bond. In: Yang J, editor. Financing without Bank Loans: New Alternatives for Funding SMEs in China, Singapore: Springer; 2016, p. 37–53.

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 D. What Missing Lander Means For Europe’s Quest To Find Life On Mars. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-missing-lander-means-for-europes-quest-to-find-life-on-mars/ (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. Customs Automation: Internal Control Weaknesses in Customs’ Revenue Collection Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ding H. Mode of Action for Hexavalent Chromium Carcinogenicity in Drinking Water. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2012.

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]

Schwartz J. Counting Green: How to Measure Your Carbon Tire Print. New York Times 2016:D2.

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
Scope