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

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

Ramirez AP. Geometric frustration: Magic moments. Nature. 2003;421(6922):483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nedeva M, Stampfer M. Science policy. From “science in Europe” to “European science.” Science. 2012;336(6084):982-983.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mukandavire Z, Smith DL, Morris JG Jr. Cholera in Haiti: reproductive numbers and vaccination coverage estimates. Sci Rep. 2013;3:997.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Resa I, Carmona E, Gutierrez-Puebla E, Monge A. Decamethyldizincocene, a stable compound of Zn(I) with a Zn-Zn bond. Science. 2004;305(5687):1136-1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes BK. Exercising Influence. John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

Stephanidis C, ed. HCI International 2014 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts: International Conference, HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings, Part I. Vol 434. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Chakraborty A, Konar A. Brain Imaging and Psycho-pathological Studies on Self-regulation of Emotion. In: Konar A, ed. Emotional Intelligence: A Cybernetic Approach. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer; 2009:93-132.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Spiders use electricity to catch prey and airborne particulates. IFLScience. January 17, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-use-electricity-catch-prey-and-airborne-particulates/

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. Interdepartment Radio Advisory Committee: IRAC Representatives Effectively Coordinate Federal Spectrum but Lack Seniority to Advise on Contentious Policy Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anaya S. Animo Clinician Training Program for Detection and Treatment of Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression in Low Income Latina Women a Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Rothenberg B. Defending Champion Kerber Is Ousted. New York Times. August 30, 2017:B11.

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	The American Journal of Medicine
Abbreviation	Am. J. Med.
ISSN (print)	0002-9343
Scope	General Medicine