How to format your references using the Medicinski razgledi citation style

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

Chaddah P. Not all plagiarism requires a retraction. Nature. 2014; 511(7508) : 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle-Mulcahy L, Lamond AI. Toward a high-resolution view of nuclear dynamics. Science. 2007; 318(5855) : 1402–1407.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murdoch W, Briggs CJ, Swarbrick S. Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration. Science. 2005; 309(5734) : 610–613.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hornekaer L, Baurichter A, Petrunin VV, et al. Importance of surface morphology in interstellar H2 formation. Science. 2003; 302(5652) : 1943–1946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Polushkin V. Nuclear Electronics. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2005.

An edited book

Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: 4th International Conference, CALCO 2011, Winchester, UK, August 30 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6859. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuliamin V. Test Construction for Mathematical Functions. In Suzuki K, Higashino T, Ulrich A, et al., editors. Testing of Software and Communicating Systems: 20th IFIP TC 6/WG 6.1 International Conference, TestCom 2008 8th International Workshop, FATES 2008 Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2008 Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2008, pp. 23–37.

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 Medicinski razgledi.

Blog post

Andrew D. Six Different Ways To Think About ‘Extinction’. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/six-different-ways-to-think-about-extinction/.

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. Airport Funding: Aviation Industry Changes Affect Airport Development Costs and Financing. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pulsifer JE. Learning from the Uighurs: Correcting Inadequate Due Process in Terrorist Financing Sanction Regimes. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC, George Washington University, 2012.

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

Dominus S. Double Lives. New York Times. 2015 : MM34.

In-text citations

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

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	Medicinski razgledi
ISSN (print)	0025-8121
ISSN (online)	1581-3797
Scope