How to format your references using the Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in 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

1. McKinney JD. Technology: Photonics illuminates the future of radar. Nature. 2014;507:310–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Taylor RL, Mittlefehldt DW. Missing martian meteorites. Science. 2000;290:273c–5c.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen Y-Z, Huang Z-G, Lai Y-C. Controlling extreme events on complex networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6121.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fialko Y, Sandwell D, Agnew D, Simons M, Shearer P, Minster B. Deformation on nearby faults induced by the 1999 Hector Mine earthquake. Science. 2002;297:1858–62.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. German Geotechnical Society. Taschenbuch für den Tunnelbau 2014. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

1. Xin X. Control Design and Analysis for Underactuated Robotic Systems. Liu Y, editor. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jacob G, Debar H, Filiol E. Malware Behavioral Detection by Attribute-Automata Using Abstraction from Platform and Language. In: Kirda E, Jha S, Balzarotti D, editors. Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection: 12th International Symposium, RAID 2009, Saint-Malo, France, September 23-25, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 81–100.

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 Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine.

Blog post

1. Fang J. How “Death Stars” wipe out potential planets. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Propane and Heating Oil: Federal Oversight of the Propane Education and Research Council and National Oilheat Research Alliance Should Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Sep. Report No.: GAO-10-981T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ramotar-John BP. Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2014.

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. Vecsey G. St. John’s Takes an Opener, With No Fight From UConn. New York Times. 2010 Mar 10;B13.

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	Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Abbreviation	Philos. Ethics Humanit. Med.
ISSN (online)	1747-5341
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science General Medicine Health Policy Issues, ethics and legal aspects

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