How to format your references using the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polish Archives of Internal 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	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

Ramaswamy S. Biochemistry. One atom makes all the difference. Science. 2011; 334: 914-915.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gluckman PD, Hanson MA. Living with the past: evolution, development, and patterns of disease. Science. 2004; 305: 1733-1736.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scholz H, Franz M, Heberlein U. The hangover gene defines a stress pathway required for ethanol tolerance development. Nature. 2005; 436: 845-847.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lefèvre F, Bertaux J-L, Clancy RT, et al. Heterogeneous chemistry in the atmosphere of Mars. Nature. 2008; 454: 971-975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strohfeldt KA. Essentials of Inorganic Chemistry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015.

An edited book

Kroll N, Hirsch C, Bassi F, et al., eds. IDIHOM: Industrialization of High-Order Methods - A Top-Down Approach: Results of a Collaborative Research Project Funded by the European Union, 2010 - 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Gdawiec K. Mandelbrot- and Julia-Like Rendering of Polynomiographs. In: Chmielewski LJ, Kozera R, Shin B-S, Wojciechowski K, editors. Computer Vision and Graphics: International Conference, ICCVG 2014, Warsaw, Poland, September 15-17, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014: 25-32.

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 Polish Archives of Internal Medicine.

Blog post

Andrews R. Four Of Iceland’s Volcanoes Are Priming To Erupt. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-icelands-volcanoes-priming-erupt/.

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. Bureau of Indian Education: Improving Interior’s Assistance Would Aid Tribal Groups Developing Academic Accountability Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Haneef NJ. A synthesized conceptual framework for the design of user interfaces of interactive information products. 2009.

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

Yablonsky L. Power Nap. New York Times 2010 ST3.

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 [1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Polish Archives of Internal Medicine
ISSN (print)	0032-3772
ISSN (online)	1897-9483
Scope