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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine (KJIM). 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

Ciesla FJ. Planetary science. Observing our origins. Science 2008;319:1488–1489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maser RS, DePinho RA. Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science 2002;297:565–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen L-Y, Redon S, Lingner J. The human CST complex is a terminator of telomerase activity. Nature 2012;488:540–544.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

van der Wal CH, Eisaman MD, André A, et al. Atomic memory for correlated photon states. Science 2003;301:196–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne C. Specification Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

Bonato A, Graham FC, Prałat P (eds). Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph: 11th International Workshop, WAW 2014, Beijing, China, December 17-18, 2014, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Revathi P, Hemalatha M. SMS Based HPCCDD Algorithm for the Identification of Leaf Spot Diseases. In: S M, Kumar SS, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012): Volume 1. Springer India: New Delhi, 2013:49–57.

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 Internal Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Largest Silurian Vertebrate Discovered. IFLScience. . [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/largest-silurian-vertebrate-discovered/. .

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. Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans and Schedules Require Further Attention. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mayner SW. Transformational leadership and organizational change during agile and devops initiatives. 2017. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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

Feeney K. Snack Like a Surfer. New York Times . 2010, NJ10.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine
ISSN (print)	1226-3303
ISSN (online)	2005-6648
Scope