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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine (KJIM). 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

Pfennig KS. Facultative mate choice drives adaptive hybridization. Science 2007;318:965–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

Discher DE, Eisenberg A. Polymer vesicles. Science 2002;297:967–973.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li L, Wang H, Zhao X. Effects of Rhodiola on production, health and gut development of broilers reared at high altitude in Tibet. Sci Rep 2014;4:7166.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Herd CDK, Blinova A, Simkus DN, et al. Origin and evolution of prebiotic organic matter as inferred from the Tagish Lake meteorite. Science 2011;332:1304–1307.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berto F. There’s Something about Gödel. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2009.

An edited book

Varelas M (ed). Identity Construction and Science Education Research: Learning, Teaching, and Being in Multiple Contexts. SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Rissanen J. Optimal Estimation. In: Elomaa T, Hollmén J, Mannila H, eds. Discovery Science: 14th International Conference, DS 2011, Espoo, Finland, October 5-7, 2011. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011:30–30.

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 Korean Journal of Internal Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew D. Schizophrenia May Cause Type 2 Diabetes, New Study Finds. IFLScience. . [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/schizophrenia-may-cause-type-2-diabetes-new-study-finds/. .

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. Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ahmed S. Human fatigue in prolonged mentally demanding work-tasks: An observational study in the field. 2013. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University.

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

Vecsey G. U.S. Shares the Blame for Feeling Cheated. New York Times . 2010, D2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
ISSN (print)	1226-3303
ISSN (online)	2005-6648
Scope