How to format your references using the The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science. 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

Robert F. Isotope geochemistry. The origin of water on earth. Science. 2001 Aug 10;293(5532):1056–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doubleday R, Wilsdon J. Science policy: Beyond the great and good. Nature. 2012 May 16;485(7398):301–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Corominas-Murtra B, Fortuny J, Solé RV. Towards a mathematical theory of meaningful communication. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 4;4:4587.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Alessandrini M, Micarelli A, Chiaravalloti A, Candidi M, Bruno E, Di Pietro B, et al. Cortico-subcortical metabolic correlates of olfactory processing in healthy resting subjects. Sci Rep. 2014 Jun 3;4:5146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shreves R. Joomla!® Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Brown D. Arc-Continent Collision. Ryan PD, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XII, 988 p. 241 illus., 221 illus. in color. (Frontiers in Earth Sciences).

A chapter in an edited book

Schultz DM. Perspectives on Fred Sanders’ Research on Cold Fronts. In: Bosart LF, Bluestein HB, editors. Synoptic—Dynamic Meteorology and Weather Analysis and Forecasting: A Tribute to Fred Sanders. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society; 2008. p. 109–26.

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 Ceylon Journal of Medical Science.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Two Of The World’s Rarest Tigers Have Been Born At London Zoo. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-of-the-worlds-rarest-tigers-have-been-born-at-london-zoo/

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. Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 May. Report No.: HEHS-94-169BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Walther RL. Approaches to Stream Restoration: Practices in Missouri and Illinois [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Feeney K. Homey Food That Speaks Of Brazil. New York Times. 2008 Apr 27;NJ22.

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 Ceylon Journal of Medical Science
Abbreviation	Ceylon J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0011-2232
Scope