How to format your references using the Advances in Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Medical Sciences. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Connelly JN. Geochemistry. Adjusting the solar system’s absolute clock. Science 2010;327:422–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ichinose G, Sayama H. Evolution of fairness in the not quite ultimatum game. Sci Rep 2014;4:5104.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. A quantum Newton’s cradle. Nature 2006;440:900–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lisse CM, Christian DJ, Dennerl K, Meech KJ, Petre R, Weaver HA, et al. Charge exchange-induced X-ray emission from comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR). Science 2001;292:1343–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Cheremisinoff NP. Industrial Gas Flaring Practices. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Sterri AB, editor. Global Citizen – Challenges and Responsibility in an Interconnected World. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jurdziński T. Leftist Grammars Are Non-primitive Recursive. In: Aceto L, Damgård I, Goldberg LA, Halldórsson MM, Ingólfsdóttir A, Walukiewicz I, editors. Automata, Languages and Programming: 35th International Colloquium, ICALP 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 7-11, 2008, Proceedings, Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 51–62.

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 Advances in Medical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Poachers Are Using Scientific Papers To Locate Endangered Species’ Whereabouts. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/poachers-are-using-scientific-papers-to-locate-endangered-species-whereabouts-/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Drug Control: Status of Plan to Use Federal Research and Development Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chotkevys DL. A grounded theory study to explore how nurses overcome barriers to spiritual care. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2009.

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

[1]

Murphy MJO. Opening Night for ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’ New York Times 2015:C28.

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	Advances in Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1896-1126
Scope	General Medicine