How to format your references using the GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information. 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

Sodeoka M. Chemistry. Efficient fluorination of organic molecules with chiral anions. Science. 2011 Dec 23;334(6063):1651–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verchère A, Menon AK. Structural biology: Lipid gymnastics. Nature. 2015 Aug 27;524(7566):420–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor B, Gardet A, Xavier RJ. Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature. 2011 Jun 15;474(7351):307–17.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang Q, Lu Z, Sun X, Liu J. Ultrathin Co3O4 nanosheet arrays with high supercapacitive performance. Sci Rep. 2013 Dec 18;3:3537.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton D. Trump University Marketing 101. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Bider I, Halpin T, Krogstie J, Nurcan S, Proper E, Schmidt R, et al., editors. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 11th International Workshop, BPMDS 2010, and 15th International Conference, EMMSAD 2010, held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XV, 341 p. 129 illus. (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; vol. 50).

A chapter in an edited book

Bernstein DJ, Lange T, Peters C, Schwabe P. Faster 2-Regular Information-Set Decoding. In: Chee YM, Guo Z, Ling S, Shao F, Tang Y, Wang H, et al., editors. Coding and Cryptology: Third International Workshop, IWCC 2011, Qingdao, China, May 30-June 3, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 81–98. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information.

Blog post

Luntz S. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016. Giant Dinosaurs’ Arrival In Australia Suggests A Period Of Antarctic Warming.

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. Federal Research: Information on the Advanced Technology Program’s Award Selection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Aug. Report No.: RCED-99-258R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCarthy BA. Mentoring’s critical components: Four traditional teachers’, four alternate -route teachers’, and four mentors’ perspectives [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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 Devil Went Down to Chelsea. New York Times. 2016 Dec 14;C5.

In-text citations

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

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	GMS Medizin - Bibliothek - Information
ISSN (print)	1865-066X
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