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

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

Ho CH. Amorphous effect on the advancing of wide-range absorption and structural-phase transition in γ-In2Se3 polycrystalline layers. Sci Rep. 2014 Apr 23;4:4764.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun ZW, Allis CD. Ubiquitination of histone H2B regulates H3 methylation and gene silencing in yeast. Nature. 2002 Jul 4;418(6893):104–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Peñalver E, Grimaldi DA, Delclòs X. Early Cretaceous spider web with its prey. Science. 2006 Jun 23;312(5781):1761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rodrigues-Martins A, Riparbelli M, Callaini G, Glover DM, Bettencourt-Dias M. Revisiting the role of the mother centriole in centriole biogenesis. Science. 2007 May 18;316(5827):1046–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lado EP. The Common Fisheries Policy. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Lozano MD, Gallud JA, Tesoriero R, Penichet VMR, editors. Distributed User Interfaces: Usability and Collaboration. London: Springer; 2013. XIII, 163 p. 77 illus. (Human–Computer Interaction Series).

A chapter in an edited book

He Y, Su Y. Silicon-Based Nanoagents for Cancer Therapy. In: Su Y, editor. Silicon Nano-biotechnology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 75–91. (SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science).

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 Medical Journal.

Blog post

Luntz S. Long Periods Of Poverty Linked To Loss Of Brain Function [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/long-periods-of-poverty-linked-to-loss-of-brain-function/

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. Telecommunications: Preliminary Information on Media Ownership. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Dec. Report No.: GAO-08-330R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mahiko J. Community Connections: Supporting Rural Youth with Disabilities Who Are Work-Bound [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella 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

Choi S. Vanishing Acts. New York Times. 2013 Nov 10;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 Medical Journal
Abbreviation	Ceylon Med. J.
ISSN (print)	0009-0875
Scope	General Medicine

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