How to format your references using the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine citation style

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

McCabe H. European public remains sceptical. Nature. 2000;405(6782):5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roorda S, Lewis LJ. Comment on “The local structure of amorphous silicon.” Science. 2012;338(6114):1539; author reply 1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

Madhu R, Veeramani V, Chen SM. Heteroatom-enriched and renewable banana-stem-derived porous carbon for the electrochemical determination of nitrite in various water samples. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4679.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Linden S, Enkrich C, Wegener M, Zhou J, Koschny T, Soukoulis CM. Magnetic response of metamaterials at 100 terahertz. Science. 2004;306(5700):1351-1353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davino C, Furno M, Vistocco D. Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Kamihigashi T, Zhao L, eds. International Trade and Economic Dynamics: Essays in Memory of Koji Shimomura. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

de Meatza I, Miguel O, Cendoya I, et al. GREENLION Project: Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Low Cost Greener Li-Ion Batteries. In: Briec E, Müller B, eds. Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer International Publishing; 2015:45-60.

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 the American Board of Family Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Martian: A Perfect Balance Of Scientific Accuracy And Gripping Fiction. IFLScience. September 29, 2015.

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. Aviation Security: Preliminary Observations on TSA’s Progress to Allow Airports to Use Private Passenger and Baggage Screening Services. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schluter KT. Hearing Words without Structure: Subliminal Speech Priming and the Organization of the Moroccan Arabic Lexicon. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona; 2013.

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

Saslow L. Inquiry Into Gosman’s, Up for Sale, Continues. New York Times. January 7, 2007:14LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the American Board of Family Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Am. Board Fam. Med.
ISSN (print)	1557-2625
ISSN (online)	1558-7118
Scope	Family Practice Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health