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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Netherlands 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	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

Forde A. The class of 2005. Norway: a neuroscientist making connections. Science. 2005 Oct 21;310(5747):521.

A journal article with 2 authors

Novikov VN, Sokolov AP. Poisson’s ratio and the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature. 2004 Oct 21;431(7011):961–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grenfell BT, Bjørnstad ON, Kappey J. Travelling waves and spatial hierarchies in measles epidemics. Nature. 2001 Dec 13;414(6865):716–23.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daniels MA, Teixeiro E, Gill J, Hausmann B, Roubaty D, Holmberg K, et al. Thymic selection threshold defined by compartmentalization of Ras/MAPK signalling. Nature. 2006 Dec 7;444(7120):724–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet PJ. Discrete Wavelet Transformations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Mehandjiev N, Grefen P, editors. Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises. London: Springer; 2010. IX, 266 p. (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing).

A chapter in an edited book

Patwary MMA, Satish NR, Sundaram N, Park J, Anderson MJ, Vadlamudi SG, et al. Parallel Efficient Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on Multicore Platforms. In: Kunkel JM, Ludwig T, editors. High Performance Computing: 30th International Conference, ISC High Performance 2015, Frankfurt, Germany, July 12-16, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 48–57. (Lecture Notes in Computer 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 Netherlands Journal of Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews R. India Successfully Deploys 104 Satellites In World Record-Breaking Rocket Launch [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/india-deploys-104-satellites-world-recordbreaking-rocket-launch/

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. FCC: Geographic Partitioning and Spectrum Disaggregation for the 220-222 MHz Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: OGC-98-77.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harper NR. The Relationship between Worry Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and True Memory, False Memory, and Metamemory [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

Walsh MW. Irene Adds To Bad Year For Insurers. New York Times. 2011 Aug 29;B1.

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 Netherlands Journal of Medicine
Abbreviation	Neth. J. Med.
ISSN (print)	0300-2977
ISSN (online)	1872-9061
Scope	Internal Medicine