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]

Dixit V. Jürg Tschopp (1951-2011). Nature 2011;472:296.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Houk KN, Cheong PH-Y. Computational prediction of small-molecule catalysts. Nature 2008;455:309–13.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Eggleton PP, Dearborn DSP, Lattanzio JC. Deep mixing of 3He: reconciling Big Bang and stellar nucleosynthesis. Science 2006;314:1580–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Schreyvogel C, Wolfer M, Kato H, Schreck M, Nebel CE. Tuned NV emission by in-plane Al-Schottky junctions on hydrogen terminated diamond. Sci Rep 2014;4:3634.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Corsi P, Dulieu M. The Marketing of Technology Intensive Products and Services. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Morrill G, Nederhof M-J, editors. Formal Grammar: 17th and 18th International Conferences, FG 2012, Opole, Poland, August 2012, Revised Selected Papers, FG 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 2013. Proceedings. vol. 8036. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hinow P, Radunskaya AE. The Mathematics of Drug Delivery. In: Eladdadi A, Kim P, Mallet D, editors. Mathematical Models of Tumor-Immune System Dynamics, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 109–23.

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]

Taub B. All Psychoactive Substances Are Now Illegal In The UK. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/all-psychoactive-substances-are-now-illegal-uk/ (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. Reasons for Lack of Replacement for Failed Weather Satellite. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Desai SS. CFD simuation of flow past a rotating circular cylinder with an end plate. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Kelly J. ‘The Perfect Team for Brooklynland.’ New York Times 2012:MM58.

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