How to format your references using the International Journal of Medical Sciences citation style

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

Maxted PFL. Astronomy. A ghostly star revealed in silhouette. Science. 2006 Dec 8;314(5805):1550–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rehren T, Pusch EB. Late Bronze Age glass production at Qantir-Piramesses, Egypt. Science. 2005 Jun 17;308(5729):1756–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brummelkamp TR, Bernards R, Agami R. A system for stable expression of short interfering RNAs in mammalian cells. Science. 2002 Apr 19;296(5567):550–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bäurle I, Smith L, Baulcombe DC, Dean C. Widespread role for the flowering-time regulators FCA and FPA in RNA-mediated chromatin silencing. Science. 2007 Oct 5;318(5847):109–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandler C. The Science of ADHD. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Madrid R, Bacigalupo J, editors. TRP Channels in Sensory Transduction. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. X, 234 p. 33 illus., 23 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Lagorio SL, Vizán H, Geuna SE. Geodynamical Setting for the Tholeiites of Misiones Province (North-eastern Argentina) in the Context of the PMP and the Alkaline Volcanism of Córdoba Province (Central Argentina). In: Vizán H, Geuna SE, editors. Early Cretaceous Volcanism in Central and Eastern Argentina During Gondwana Break-Up. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 129–35. (SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences).

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 International Journal of Medical Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. It’s Now Compulsory To Teach Climate Change And Evolution In Alabama Schools. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/it-now-compulsory-teach-students-climate-change-and-evolution-alabama-schools/

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. Air Traffic Control: Uncertainties and Challenges Face FAA’s Advanced Automated System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Apr. Report No.: T-RCED-93-30.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Johnson BD. Application of systems engineering principles for analysis of utility baseline development process [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

Vecsey G. They Left Their Hearts at Coogan’s Bluff. New York Times. 2013 Jan 14;D1.

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	International Journal of Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (online)	1449-1907
Scope	General Medicine