How to format your references using the The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean Journal of Gastroenterology. 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

Zare RN. Chemistry. Resonances in reaction dynamics. Science 2006;311:1383–1385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Foster DJ, Wilson MA. Reverse replay of behavioural sequences in hippocampal place cells during the awake state. Nature 2006;440:680–683.

A journal article with 3 authors

Davidson EA, Trumbore SE, Amundson R. Soil warming and organic carbon content. Nature 2000;408:789–790.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Reed RD, Papa R, Martin A, et al. optix drives the repeated convergent evolution of butterfly wing pattern mimicry. Science 2011;333:1137–1141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ndjountche T. Digital Electronics 3. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Kotulski Z, Księżopolski B, Mazur K (eds). Cryptography and Security Systems: Third International Conference, CSS 2014, Lublin, Poland, September 22-24, 2014. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Cook RF. Microstructural Control of Indentation Crack Extension under Externally Applied StressIn: Bradt RC, Munz D, Sakai M, et al., eds. Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Active Materials, Nanoscale Materials, Composites, Glass and Fundamentals. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2005:57–67.

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 Korean Journal of Gastroenterology.

Blog post

Andrew D. Humans Now Drive Evolution On Earth, Both Creating And Destroying Species. IFLScience . Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/humans-now-drive-evolution-on-earth-both-creating-and-destroying-species/. 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Telecommunications: GSA Has Accumulated Adequate Funding for Transition to New Contracts but Needs Cost Estimation Policy. GAO-07-268, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, February 23, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hsu Y-C. A cultural psychosocial model for depression in elder care institutions: The roles of Socially Supportive Activity and self-transcendence. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona, 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

Sorkin AR, de la MERCED MJ, Thomas K. As Amazon Looms, CVS Eyes Aetna For Big Buy. New York Times, October 27, 2017, B1.

In-text citations

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

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 Korean Journal of Gastroenterology
ISSN (print)	1598-9992
ISSN (online)	2233-6869
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