How to format your references using the Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mount Sinai Journal of 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

Wang Q. China’s citizens must act to save their environment. Nature. 2013 May 9;497(7448):159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedo CM, Whitehouse MJ. Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth’s earliest life. Science. 2002 May 24;296(5572):1448–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fujisawa K, Wrana JL, Culotti JG. The slit receptor EVA-1 coactivates a SAX-3/Robo mediated guidance signal in C. elegans. Science. 2007 Sep 28;317(5846):1934–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harmon LJ, Matthews B, Des Roches S, Chase JM, Shurin JB, Schluter D. Evolutionary diversification in stickleback affects ecosystem functioning. Nature. 2009 Apr 30;458(7242):1167–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cohen WR, Friedman EA. Labor and Delivery Care. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Ritsner M, editor. Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II: Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. XVII, 526 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Diallo AA, Chaudet C. An Alternate Topology Generator for Joint Study of Power Grids and Communication Networks. In: Rome E, Bloomfield R, editors. Critical Information Infrastructures Security: 4th International Workshop, CRITIS 2009, Bonn, Germany, September 30 - October 2, 2009 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 50–61. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine.

Blog post

Hale T. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. The Bizarre Story Of Japan’s First Astronaut. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-bizarre-story-of-japans-first-astronaut/

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. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Should Be Reassessed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013 May. Report No.: GAO-13-610T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Choi KK. Conspiracy and alternative crimes in the Military Commissions Act of 2009: Is There a Way Out? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Village Wants Restaurant Wastewater Degreased. New York Times. 2007 Jun 3;LI2.

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	Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine
Abbreviation	Mt. Sinai J. Med.
ISSN (print)	0027-2507
ISSN (online)	1931-7581
Scope	General Medicine