How to format your references using the World Journal of Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Diabetes. 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

Kun H. Evaluation: Moving away from metrics. Nature 2015; 520: S18-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kneller EA, van Keken PE. Trench-parallel flow and seismic anisotropy in the Mariana and Andean subduction systems. Nature 2007; 450: 1222–1225.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brook BW, Sodhi NS, Ng PKL. Catastrophic extinctions follow deforestation in Singapore. Nature 2003; 424: 420–426.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Okada A, Charron F, Morin S, Shin DS, Wong K, Fabre PJ, Tessier-Lavigne M, McConnell SK. Boc is a receptor for sonic hedgehog in the guidance of commissural axons. Nature 2006; 444: 369–373.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maude D. Global Private Banking and Wealth Management. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd

An edited book

Silva MJ (ed). Skeletal Aging and Osteoporosis: Biomechanics and Mechanobiology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Hühnerfuss H. Basic physicochemical principles of monomolecular sea slicks and crude oil spills. In: Gade M, Hühnerfuss H, Korenowski GM, editors. Marine Surface Films: Chemical Characteristics, Influence on Air-Sea Interactions and Remote Sensing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006: 21–35.

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 World Journal of Diabetes.

Blog post

Fang J. This Microbe’s Hair is Actually a Nanowire for Powering Itself. IFLScience. 2014.

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. Mass Transit: Reauthorization Offers Opportunity To Address the Appropriate Federal Role. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fearrington ND. The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren). 2008.

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. Inquiry Focuses on White House Role in Preserving Union Pensions at Delphi. New York Times. 2010; : B3.

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	World Journal of Diabetes
ISSN (online)	1948-9358
Scope