How to format your references using the Medicina citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Medicina. 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]

Monack DM. Immunology: recognition of a unique partner. Nature 2011;477:543–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gundersen GG, Bretscher A. Cell biology. Microtubule asymmetry. Science 2003;300:2040–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Zikherman J, Parameswaran R, Weiss A. Endogenous antigen tunes the responsiveness of naive B cells but not T cells. Nature 2012;489:160–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hemphill DD, McIlwraith CW, Samulski RJ, Goodrich LR. Adeno-associated viral vectors show serotype specific transduction of equine joint tissue explants and cultured monolayers. Sci Rep 2014;4:5861.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Simmendinger H. HOAI 2013: Praxisleitfaden für Ingenieure und Architekten. D-69451 Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Lustig BA, Brody BA, McKenny GP, editors. Altering Nature: Volume Two: Religion, Biotechnology, and Public Policy. vol. 98. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yu L, Liu X, Petinakis E, Dean K, Bateman S. Starch Based Blends, Composites and Nanocomposites. In: Thomas S, Visakh PM, Mathew AP, editors. Advances in Natural Polymers: Composites and Nanocomposites, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 121–54.

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 Medicina.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Watch Slime Molds Recreate The Intro To Game Of Thrones. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-slime-moulds-recreate-intro-game-thrones/ (accessed October 30, 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. Social Security: Measure of Telephone Service Accuracy Can Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Julfayan-Gregorian V. Success Strategies of First-Generation Foreign-Born Leaders. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Leland J. ‘Weird Isn’t In Right Now.’ New York Times 2017:MB1.

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	Medicina
Abbreviation	Medicina (Kaunas)
ISSN (print)	1010-660X
Scope	General Medicine