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

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

Mercader J. Mozambican grass seed consumption during the Middle Stone Age. Science 2009; 326: 1680–1683.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suit HD, Withers HR. Endothelial cells and radiation gastrointestinal syndrome. Science 2001; 294: 1411.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana CC, Misra A, Ching W-Y. Quantum mechanical metric for internal cohesion in cement crystals. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 7332.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Nam S-W, Qian C, Kim SH, van Noort D, Chiam K-H, Park S. C. elegans sensing of and entrainment along obstacles require different neurons at different body locations. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 3247.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Habib MAR. Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Monma T, Goto I, Hayashi T, Tachiya H, Ohsawa K (eds). Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages. 1st ed. 2015. Tokyo: Springer Japan

A chapter in an edited book

Iida K. Nanocomposite RE-Ba-Cu-O Bulk Superconductors. In: Mele P, Endo T, Arisawa S, Li C, Tsuchiya T, editors. Oxide Thin Films, Multilayers, and Nanocomposites. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015: 85–95.

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 Experimental Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Scientists Generate Sperm Precursors From Skin Cells Of Infertile Men. 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. NASA Issues. 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

Johnson KC. Teacher and parent perceptions of classroom experiences of African American male students in a high school alternative program. 2013.

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

Fandos N, Shear MD. List of Russia Sanctions Is Provided to Congress. New York Times. 2017; : A11.

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 Experimental Medicine
ISSN (online)	2220-315X
Scope