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

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

Levasseur-Regourd AC. Cometary dust unveiled. Science. 2004 Jun 18;304(5678):1762–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Olson MV, Varki A. Genomics. The chimpanzee genome--a bittersweet celebration. Science. 2004 Jul 9;305(5681):191–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

Forde SE, Thompson JN, Bohannan BJM. Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interaction. Nature. 2004 Oct 14;431(7010):841–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Raines KS, Salha S, Sandberg RL, Jiang H, Rodríguez JA, Fahimian BP, et al. Three-dimensional structure determination from a single view. Nature. 2010 Jan 14;463(7278):214–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee JYB. Scalable Continuous Media Streaming Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Rodrigues ER. Applications of Discrete-time Markov Chains and Poisson Processes to Air Pollution Modeling and Studies. Achcar JA, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. X, 107 p. 12 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics).

A chapter in an edited book

Rybacki KS, Kump LR, Hanski EJ, Melezhik VA. 7.4 An Apparent Oxidation of the Upper Mantle versus Regional Deep Oxidation of Terrestrial Surfaces in the Fennoscandian Shield. In: Melezhik VA, Prave AR, Hanski EJ, Fallick AE, Lepland A, Kump LR, et al., editors. Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation: Volume 3: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 1151–67. (Frontiers in Earth Sciences).

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 Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. How Likely Is It That Your Job Will Be Replaced By A Robot? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/find-out-if-your-job-risk-artificial-intelligence/

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. High Definition Television: The Effects of Standards on U.S. Entertainment Industries. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: IMTEC-90-33.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ringler I. Values satisfaction and participation in a community leadership program: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

Hubbard B. Learning to Speak Al Jazeera. New York Times. 2017 Jan 14;SR3.

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	Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences
Abbreviation	Maced. J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1857-5749
ISSN (online)	1857-5773
Scope	General Medicine