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

Südhof TC. Neuroligins and neurexins link synaptic function to cognitive disease. Nature. 2008 Oct 16;455(7215):903–11.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li J, Cheng JX. Direct visualization of de novo lipogenesis in single living cells. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 29;4:6807.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Q, Piston DW, Goodman RH. Regulation of corepressor function by nuclear NADH. Science. 2002 Mar 8;295(5561):1895–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Solomonov I, Talmi-Frank D, Milstein Y, Addadi S, Aloshin A, Sagi I. Introduction of correlative light and airSEM^TM microscopy imaging for tissue research under ambient conditions. Sci Rep. 2014 Aug 7;4:5987.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scharf T. Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

Bloem R, Arbel E, editors. Hardware and Software: Verification and Testing: 12th International Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2016, Haifa, Israel, November 14-17, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVI, 211 p. 60 illus. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10028).

A chapter in an edited book

McGettigan T, Smith E. Scientific Racism. In: Smith E, editor. A Formula for Eradicating Racism: Debunking White Supremacy. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 35–47.

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

Andrew E. A new metamaterial gives visible light a nearly infinite wavelength. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013.

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 R&D Laboratories. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Feb. Report No.: RCED/NSIAD-96-78R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Puebla RA. The avant-garde tuba: Analysis and comparisons of interpretations of William Kraft’s Encounters II for unaccompanied tuba [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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

Goodman J. The Other 1 Percent. New York Times. 2016 Oct 9;BR25.

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

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