How to format your references using the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Medical Directors Association (JAMDA). 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

Grimaldi D. Paleontology. Pushing back amber production. Science. 2009;326(5949):51-52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou Q, Bachtrog D. Sex-specific adaptation drives early sex chromosome evolution in Drosophila. Science. 2012;337(6092):341-345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamashiro H, Isomura N, Sakai K. Bloom of the cyanobacterium Moorea bouillonii on the gorgonian coral Annella reticulata in Japan. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6032.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Su SL, Shao XQ, Wang HF, Zhang S. Preparation of three-dimensional entanglement for distant atoms in coupled cavities via atomic spontaneous emission and cavity decay. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7566.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Esmailzadeh R. Broadband Telecommunications Technologies and Management. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Park JJ (jong H, Leung VCM, Wang CL, Shon T, eds. Future Information Technology, Application, and Service: FutureTech 2012 Volume 2. Vol 179. Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Day AP. Spherical Kikuchi Maps and Other Rarities. In: Schwartz AJ, Kumar M, Adams BL, Field DP, eds. Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. Springer US; 2009:65-80.

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 Medical Directors Association.

Blog post

Andrew D. Why Are There So Many Species Of Bugs, But So Few Species Of Human? IFLScience. September 16, 2016.

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. Administrative Systems: NASA Should Reassess Its AIM Program and Rescind Its IBM-Compatible Policy. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krau CF. A Case Study of Congregational Design and Implementation of Adult Christian Education. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University; 2008.

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

Gustines GG. The Illustrated Stories of Teenagers, Told With Humor and a Light Heart. New York Times. May 16, 2016:B6.

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 Medical Directors Association
ISSN (print)	1525-8610
ISSN (online)	1538-9375
Scope