How to format your references using the The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science. 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

Berg JM. Science policy: Well-funded investigators should receive extra scrutiny. Nature. 2012 Sep 13;489(7415):203.

A journal article with 2 authors

Britt RD, Oyala PH. Biochemistry. One step closer to O₂. Science. 2014 Aug 15;345(6198):736.

A journal article with 3 authors

Borys NJ, Shafran E, Lupton JM. Surface plasmon delocalization in silver nanoparticle aggregates revealed by subdiffraction supercontinuum hot spots. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2090.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Studt F, Abild-Pedersen F, Bligaard T, Sørensen RZ, Christensen CH, Nørskov JK. Identification of non-precious metal alloy catalysts for selective hydrogenation of acetylene. Science. 2008 Jun 6;320(5881):1320–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn C, Taylor B. NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Honenberger P, editor. Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2015. X, 258 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Tan Y, Tang S. Two Approaches to Build UOV Variants with Shorter Private Key and Faster Signature Generation. In: Lin D, Wang X, Yung M, editors. Information Security and Cryptology: 11th International Conference, Inscrypt 2015, Beijing, China, November 1-3, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 57–74. (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 The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science.

Blog post

Davis J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017. One In Four Bee Species In The US At Risk Of 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. Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Nov. Report No.: GAO-05-29R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frederick K. Wool and Water [Doctoral dissertation]. [Boca Raton, FL]: Florida Atlantic University; 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

Greenhouse L. The Facts Win Out on Abortion. New York Times. 2016 Jun 27;A23.

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	The Ceylon Journal of Medical Science
Abbreviation	Ceylon J. Med. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0011-2232
Scope