How to format your references using the Polish Annals of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polish Annals of 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	Download the output style file
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

Krupp N. New surprises in the largest magnetosphere of our solar system. Science. 2007;318(5848):216-217.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bintanja R, van der Linden EC. The changing seasonal climate in the Arctic. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1556.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman YE, Franzini-Armstrong C, Armstrong CM. Andrew Fielding Huxley (1917-2012). Nature. 2012;486(7404):474.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Polyn SM, Natu VS, Cohen JD, Norman KA. Category-specific cortical activity precedes retrieval during memory search. Science. 2005;310(5756):1963-1966.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gage LJ. Hand-Rearing Wild and Domestic Mammals. Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.

An edited book

Hobbs M, Goscinski AM, Zhou W, eds. Distributed and Parallel Computing: 6th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP, Melbourne, Australia, October 2-3, 2005. Proceedings. Vol 3719. Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Fisch MJ. Fatigue. In: Ettinger DS, ed. Supportive Care in Cancer Therapy. Humana Press; 2009:87-107.

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 Polish Annals of Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. Could Deep Waters Save Coral Reefs? IFLScience. May 24, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-deep-waters-save-coral-reefs/

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

Government Accountability Office. B-2 Bomber: Comparison of Operational Capabilities and Support Costs for 15 Versus 20 Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Verdi KC. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 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

Paulson M. Sale of Albee Collection To Benefit Foundation. New York Times. June 25, 2017:C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Polish Annals of Medicine
Abbreviation	Pol. Ann. Med.
ISSN (print)	1230-8013
Scope	General Medicine