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

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

Benner, S. A., 2004, “Chemistry. Redesigning Genetics,” Science, 306(5696), pp. 625–626.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Stolow, A., and Jonas, D. M., 2004, “Chemistry. Multidimensional Snapshots of Chemical Dynamics,” Science, 305(5690), pp. 1575–1577.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cira, N. J., Benusiglio, A., and Prakash, M., 2015, “Vapour-Mediated Sensing and Motility in Two-Component Droplets,” Nature, 519(7544), pp. 446–450.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

He, Q. L., Lai, Y. H., Lu, Y., Law, K. T., and Sou, I. K., 2013, “Surface Reactivity Enhancement on a Pd/Bi2Te3 Heterostructure through Robust Topological Surface States,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 2497.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Minoli, D., 2012, Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Camarinha-Matos, L. M., Xu, L., and Afsarmanesh, H., eds., 2012, Collaborative Networks in the Internet of Services: 13th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2012, Bournemouth, UK, October 1-3, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Stanić, S., Hren, D., and Buzov, I., 2016, “Schools, Local Communities and Communication: Above and Beyond the Stakeholders,” School Effectiveness and Educational Management: Towards a South-Eastern Europe Research and Public Policy Agenda, N. Alfirević, J. Burušić, J. Pavičić, and R. Relja, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 49–65.

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 Medical Devices.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton, K., 2016, “To Bee Or Not To Bee – Why Some Insects Pretend To Be Dangerous,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/to-bee-or-not-to-bee-why-some-insects-pretend-to-be-dangerous/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-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, 1983, Vocational Education and the Robotics Revolution, 121707, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ruettgers, M. M., 2013, “A Content Analysis to Investigate the Evidence of 21st Century Knowledge and Skills within Elementary Teacher Education Programs in the United States,” Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University.

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]

Greenhouse, L., 2007, “Justices to Consider Impact of Mental Illness on Death Penalty,” New York Times, p. A12.

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	Journal of Medical Devices
Abbreviation	J. Med. Device.
ISSN (print)	1932-6181
ISSN (online)	1932-619X
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous)