How to format your references using the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Western Journal of Emergency 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

Balatsky AV. Superconductivity. From obscurity to impurity. Nature. 2000;403(6771):717-718.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raviv U and Klein J. Fluidity of bound hydration layers. Science. 2002;297(5586):1540-1543.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fiser J, Chiu C, and Weliky M. Small modulation of ongoing cortical dynamics by sensory input during natural vision. Nature. 2004;431(7008):573-578.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matsubara S, Ding Q, Miyazaki Y, et al. mTOR plays critical roles in pancreatic cancer stem cells through specific and stemness-related functions. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Peterson RL. Trading on Sentiment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

Belfort M, Wood DW, Stoddard BL, et al., eds. Homing Endonucleases and Inteins. Vol 16. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu B, Yang X, and Kong L. Classification of the Infectious Diseases. In: Li H, ed. Radiology of Infectious Diseases: Volume 1. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015:29-30.

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 Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews R. China Plans To Build 20 Floating Nuclear Power Plants In The South China Sea. IFLScience.

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. ADP Budget: Analysis of SSA’s Fiscal Year 1988 Information Technology Systems Request. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Delcambre ML. Finite Difference Schemes for a Structured Model of Mycobacterium marinum. 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

Von Aue M. A Radical Redo for ‘Madama Butterfly.’ New York Times. May 19, 2017:C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
ISSN (print)	1936-900X
ISSN (online)	1936-9018
Scope