How to format your references using the Journal of Personalized Medicine citation style

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

Kittinger, J.N.J. A Giant Leap. Science 2014, 345, 110.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pieters, J.; Ploegh, H. Microbiology. Chemical Warfare and Mycobacterial Defense. Science 2003, 302, 1900–1902.

A journal article with 3 authors

Goldman, S.R.; Ebright, R.H.; Nickels, B.E. Direct Detection of Abortive RNA Transcripts in Vivo. Science 2009, 324, 927–928.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aung, L.-H.-H.; Yin, R.-X.; Wu, J.-Z.; Wu, D.-F.; Wang, W.; Li, H. Association between the MLX Interacting Protein-like, BUD13 Homolog and Zinc Finger Protein 259 Gene Polymorphisms and Serum Lipid Levels. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McSween, T.E. Values-Based Safety Process; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471721611.

An edited book

Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys; Greco, S., Ehrgott, M., Figueira, J.R., Eds.; International Series in Operations Research & Management Science; 2nd ed. 2016.; Springer: New York, NY, 2016; Vol. 233; ISBN 9781493930937.

A chapter in an edited book

Child, I.G.; Ehiri, J.E. Maternal and Child Health in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Countries. In Maternal and Child Health: Global Challenges, Programs, and Policies; Ehiri, J., Ed.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; pp. 53–81 ISBN 9780387892443.

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 Personalized Medicine.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. NASA’s Asteroid-Sampling Spacecraft Has Now Been Fully Built Ahead Of Its 2016 Launch Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-asteroid-sampling-spacecraft-has-now-been-fully-built-ahead-its-2016-launch/ (accessed on 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 Statistics on Congressional Reporting Requirements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chin, S.-H. A Performer’s Guide to Howard Hanson’s “Four Poems (Poèmes Érotiques)”, Opus 9. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Kelly, M. Insult My Mom, Please. New York Times 1992, A16.

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 Personalized Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Pers. Med.
ISSN (online)	2075-4426
Scope