How to format your references using the The American Journal of Emergency Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Emergency 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

Wilson TL. The search for extraterrestrial intelligence. Nature. 2001 Feb 22;409(6823):1110–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez F, Taylor B. Mantle wedge control on back-arc crustal accretion. Nature. 2002 Mar 28;416(6879):417–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun L, Wang J, Bonaccurso E. Conductivity of individual particles measured by a microscopic four-point-probe method. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1991.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu Q, Tun HM, Leung FCC, Shah NP. Genomic insights into high exopolysaccharide-producing dairy starter bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus ASCC 1275. Sci Rep. 2014 May 15;4:4974.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Räisänen V. Service Modelling. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Vivier E, Di Santo J, Moretta A, editors. Natural Killer Cells. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. VIII, 247 p. (Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; vol. 395).

A chapter in an edited book

Slaughter DC. The Biological Engineer: Sensing the Difference Between Crops and Weeds. In: Young SL, Pierce FJ, editors. Automation: The Future of Weed Control in Cropping Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 71–95.

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 The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Psychotextiles Could Be Next Big Thing In Fabrics. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychotextiles-could-be-next-big-thing-in-fabrics/

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. Federal Funds: Fiscal Year 2001 Expenditures by Selected Organizations Involved in Health-Related Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 May. Report No.: GAO-03-527R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nguyen C. A psychoeducational support group for Vietnamese American family caregivers of stroke survivors: Grant writing thesis proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Vecsey G. Memories Sweeter Than the Home. New York Times. 2015 Apr 10;D2.

In-text citations

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

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	The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
ISSN (print)	0735-6757
ISSN (online)	1532-8171
Scope