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]

Bowler PJ. Portraits of science. Climb Chimborazo and see the world. Science 2002;298:63–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Szell M, Thurner S. How women organize social networks different from men. Sci Rep 2013;3:1214.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Courtial J, Leach J, Padgett MJ. Fractals in pixellated video feedback. Nature 2001;414:864.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Fletcher LN, Hesman BE, Irwin PGJ, Baines KH, Momary TW, Sanchez-Lavega A, et al. Thermal structure and dynamics of Saturn’s northern springtime disturbance. Science 2011;332:1413–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Calvello AA. Environmental Alpha. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Sukhoivanov IA. Photonic Crystals: Physics and Practical Modeling. vol. 152. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Williamson KE. Soil Phage Ecology: Abundance, Distribution, and Interactions with Bacterial Hosts. In: Witzany G, editor. Biocommunication in Soil Microorganisms, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 113–36.

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]

Carpineti A. Comets’ Water Signature Might Change As They Orbit The Sun. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/comets-water-signature-might-change-as-they-orbit-the-sun/ (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. HUD Information Technology: More Work Remains to Implement Necessary Management Controls. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gambini F. Leadership capacity for succession and sustainability in a family-owned private school. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2011.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Where the Romanovs Became Holy Martyrs. New York Times 2008:TR12.

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

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