How to format your references using the JAMIA citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JAMIA. 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

McFiggans G. Atmospheric science: Involatile particles from rapid oxidation. Nature. 2014;506:442–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maser RS, DePinho RA. Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science. 2002;297:565–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alley RB, Fahnestock M, Joughin I. Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times. Science. 2008;322:1061–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Patz JA, Campbell-Lendrum D, Holloway T, et al. Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature. 2005;438:310–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink JK. Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2016.

An edited book

Meersman R, Tari Z, Herrero P, editors. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: OTM 2007 Workshops: OTM Confederated International Workshops and Posters, AWeSOMe, CAMS, OTM Academy Doctoral Consortium, MONET, OnToContent, ORM, PerSys, PPN, RDDS, SSWS, and SWWS 2007, Vilamoura, Portugal, November 25-30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Arora R, Brun CMC, Azzalin CM. TERRA: Long Noncoding RNA at Eukaryotic Telomeres. In: Ugarkovic D, ed. Long Non-Coding RNAs. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2011:65–94.

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 JAMIA.

Blog post

Andrews R. Earth Is Now Warmer Than It’s Been In 120,000 Years. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/earth-is-now-warmer-than-its-been-in-120000-years/ (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Airport Development: Improvement Needed in Federal Planning. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haghighat R. An optimization model to allocate budget in school rehabilitation projects. 2015.

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. John Leguizamo in Nutty Professor Mode. New York Times. 2017;C5.

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	JAMIA
Abbreviation	J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc.
ISSN (print)	1067-5027
ISSN (online)	1527-974X
Scope	Health Informatics