How to format your references using the Swiss Medical Weekly citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Swiss Medical Weekly. 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

Kerr RA. The Sun Again Intrudes on Earth’s Decadal Climate Change. Science. 2000 Jun 16;288(5473):1986.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bashyam R, Zelenay P. A class of non-precious metal composite catalysts for fuel cells. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):63–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rodríguez-Muñoz R, Ojanguren AF, Tregenza T. Comment on “International conservation policy delivers benefits for birds in Europe.” Science. 2008 Feb 22;319(5866):1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kawakami RK, Kato Y, Hanson M, Malajovich I, Stephens JM, Johnston-Halperin E, et al. Ferromagnetic imprinting of nuclear spins in semiconductors. Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):131–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gelbaum BR. Modern Real and Complex Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1995.

An edited book

Ashbee R, Bignell EM, editors. Pathogenic Yeasts. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. X, 365 p. 28 illus., 5 illus. in color. (The Yeast Handbook).

A chapter in an edited book

Hüschelrath K, Schweitzer H. The Role of Fines in the Public Enforcement of Competition Law. In: Hüschelrath K, Schweitzer H, editors. Public and Private Enforcement of Competition Law in Europe: Legal and Economic Perspectives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 53–61. (ZEW Economic Studies).

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 Swiss Medical Weekly.

Blog post

Hale T. Lying About Santa Claus Could Undermine Kids’ Trust In Their Parents, Say Psychologists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/lying-about-santa-claus-could-undermine-kids-trust-in-their-parents-say-pyschologists/

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. Restructured Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Program in Urban Areas. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Apr. Report No.: B-130515.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Neal L. What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2016.

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

Kelly RW. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2012 May 25;A2.

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	Swiss Medical Weekly
Abbreviation	Swiss Med. Wkly
ISSN (print)	1424-7860
ISSN (online)	1424-3997
Scope	General Medicine