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

Moskvitch K. Astronomy: To catch a cosmic ray. Nature. 2014;514(7520):20-22.

A journal article with 2 authors

Selosse MA, Rousset F. Evolution. The plant-fungal marketplace. Science. 2011;333(6044):828-829.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frank F, Sonenberg N, Nagar B. Structural basis for 5’-nucleotide base-specific recognition of guide RNA by human AGO2. Nature. 2010;465(7299):818-822.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mao Y, Wen S, Chen Y, et al. High performance graphene oxide based rubber composites. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2508.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lowman M. A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Erfurt-Cooper P, ed. Volcanic Tourist Destinations. Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Komatsu T. Geomorphic Features of the Eastern Pamirs, with a Focus on the Occurrence of Intermontane Basins. In: Kreutzmann H, Watanabe T, eds. Mapping Transition in the Pamirs: Changing Human-Environmental Landscapes. Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer International Publishing; 2016:55-68.

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

Davis J. Potential New Non-Addictive Opioid Drug Discovered. IFLScience.

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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Avoid Disruption of Critical Services. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parihar R. Characterization of the Natural Killer Cell Cytokine Response to Antibody-Coated Tumor Cells. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2004.

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

Crow K. For New Trump Neighbors, Proximity Breeds Discontent. New York Times. June 3, 2001:146.

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

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