How to format your references using the Primary Care Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Primary Care Diabetes. 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

[1]

G.M. Narbonne, Geochemistry. Ocean chemistry and early animals, Science. 328 (2010) 53–54.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.H. Bennett, P.W. Shor, Computers and mathematics. Quantum channel capacities, Science. 303 (2004) 1784–1787.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.K. Gupta, D.M. Anderson, J.T. Overpeck, Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean, Nature. 421 (2003) 354–357.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Repp, G. Meyer, S. Paavilainen, F.E. Olsson, M. Persson, Imaging bond formation between a gold atom and pentacene on an insulating surface, Science. 312 (2006) 1196–1199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Kindmann, U. Krüger, Stahlbau, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Nadamoto, A. Jatowt, A. Wierzbicki, J.L. Leidner, eds., Social Informatics: SocInfo 2013 International Workshops, QMC and HISTOINFORMATICS, Kyoto, Japan, November 25, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Boureanu, A. Mitrokotsa, S. Vaudenay, Towards Secure Distance Bounding, in: S. Moriai (Ed.), Fast Software Encryption: 20th International Workshop, FSE 2013, Singapore, March 11-13, 2013. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 55–67.

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 Primary Care Diabetes.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, New Species Of Bee Found To Quarry Nests Into Solid Rock In Death Valley, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Diaz, A discrete hollow—Los Angeles, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

J. Barron, Hell Gate Bridge, a Rail Span and a Fine Place to Hide From Zombies, Turns 100, New York Times. (2017) A20.

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	Primary Care Diabetes
Abbreviation	Prim. Care Diabetes
ISSN (print)	1751-9918
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine Nutrition and Dietetics

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