How to format your references using the Obesity Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Obesity 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

Endo, M., 2006. Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature 442, 996.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gosu, V., Choi, S., 2014. Structural dynamic analysis of apo and ATP-bound IRAK4 kinase. Sci. Rep. 4, 5748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Isakov, S.V., Melko, R.G., Hastings, M.B., 2012. Universal signatures of fractionalized quantum critical points. Science 335, 193–195.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aluwihare, A., Cohen-Tannoudji, C., Erzan, A., Jacob, F., Polanyi, J., van Dijk, P., Vesentini, E., Wiesel, T., 2002. In support of scientific exchange. Nature 417, 690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brillson, L.J., 2016. An Essential Guide to Electronic Material Surfaces and Interfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Olivieri, A., 2015. Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers, 2nd ed. 2015. ed, EAA Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Farfel, J., Stefanovic, D., 2006. Towards Practical Biomolecular Computers Using Microfluidic Deoxyribozyme Logic Gate Networks, in: Carbone, A., Pierce, N.A. (Eds.), DNA Computing: 11th International Workshop on DNA Computing, DNA11, London, ON, Canada, June 6-9, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 38–54.

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 Obesity Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2013. Scientists have developed a prototype for self-replicating robots [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. FAA’s Proposed Plan for Implementing a Reliability Centered Maintenance Process for Air Traffic Control Equipment (No. GAO-07-81R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saxena, M., 2010. Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Grynbaum, M.M., Ember, S., Savage, C., 2017. Trump’s Urging That Comey Jail Reporters Is Denounced as an ‘Act of Intimidation.’ New York Times A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Endo, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Endo, 2006; Gosu and Choi, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Gosu and Choi, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Aluwihare et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Obesity Medicine
Abbreviation	Obes. Med.
ISSN (print)	2451-8476
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Internal Medicine Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health