How to format your references using the Acta Medica Philippina citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Medica Philippina. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Fuyuno I. Plastic promises. Nature. 2007 Apr 12;446(7137):715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bridson R, Batty C. Computer science. Computational physics in film. Science. 2010 Dec 24;330(6012):1756–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elbelrhiti H, Claudin P, Andreotti B. Field evidence for surface-wave-induced instability of sand dunes. Nature. 2005 Sep 29;437(7059):720–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hussain K, Challis B, Rocha N, Payne F, Minic M, Thompson A, et al. An activating mutation of AKT2 and human hypoglycemia. Science. 2011 Oct 28;334(6055):474.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Korhonen J, Savolainen T, Soininen J. Deploying IPv6 in 3GPP Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Ruru L, editor. Staging China: New Theatres in the Twenty-First Century. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. X, 282 p. (Chinese Literature and Culture in the World).

A chapter in an edited book

Lenss SS. Neural Tube Defects. In: Cartwright CC, Wallace DC, editors. Nursing Care of the Pediatric Neurosurgery Patient. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 119–39.

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 Acta Medica Philippina.

Blog post

Andrews R. Scientists Have Discovered A Secret Function Of Lungs [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-have-discovered-a-secret-function-of-lungs/

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. Public Transit: Length of Development Process, Cost Estimates, and Ridership Forecasts for Capital-Investment Grant Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 May. Report No.: GAO-14-472.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kingston SE. Genome-wide analysis of divergence and introgression in towhee hybrid zones [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

Brantley B. The Here and Now and the Hereafter: Getting to Know the Man in the Makeup. New York Times. 2016 Oct 26;C5.

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	Acta Medica Philippina
ISSN (online)	2094-9278
Scope