How to format your references using the Journal of Korean Medical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Korean Medical Science. 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

Miller JS. Obituary: Donald E. Osterbrock (1924-2007). Nature. 2007 Apr 19;446(7138):870.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vollrath F, Knight DP. Liquid crystalline spinning of spider silk. Nature. 2001 Mar 29;410(6828):541–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfe JM, Horowitz TS, Kenner NM. Cognitive psychology: rare items often missed in visual searches. Nature. 2005 May 26;435(7041):439–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boucrot E, Henry T, Borg JP, Gorvel JP, Méresse S. The intracellular fate of Salmonella depends on the recruitment of kinesin. Science. 2005 May 20;308(5725):1174–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balmori D. Drawing and Reinventing Landscape. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Bilo RAC. Forensic Aspects of Pediatric Fractures: Differentiating Accidental Trauma from Child Abuse. Robben SGF, Rijn RR, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. XVI, 209 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Kreuzer M, Robbiano L. Computing Primary and Maximal Components. In: Robbiano L, editor. Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 185–242.

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 Journal of Korean Medical Science.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. America Has Been Left Out Of An Official Climate Declaration Issued By G7 Ministers. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/america-has-been-left-out-of-an-official-climate-declaration-issued-by-g7-ministers/

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. U.S. Objectives Generally Achieved at Broadcasting Satellite International Conference--Improvements Can Help in Future Conferences. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984 Aug. Report No.: RCED-84-157.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reyes JM. A support group for adults with rheumatoid arthritis [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Donadio R. A Russian Art Leader’s Bold Goal: Engaging the West. New York Times. 2015 May 14;C1.

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	Journal of Korean Medical Science
Abbreviation	J. Korean Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1011-8934
ISSN (online)	1598-6357
Scope	General Medicine