How to format your references using the World Journal of Diabetes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Diabetes. 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

Bagenal F. Planetary science. A new spin on Saturn’s rotation. Science 2007; 316: 380–381.

A journal article with 2 authors

Metaxas PT, Mustafaraj E. Science and society. Social media and the elections. Science 2012; 338: 472–473.

A journal article with 3 authors

Douglas SM, Bachelet I, Church GM. A logic-gated nanorobot for targeted transport of molecular payloads. Science 2012; 335: 831–834.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Shimoda T, Matsuki Y, Furusawa M, Aoki T, Yudasaka I, Tanaka H, Iwasawa H, Wang D, Miyasaka M, Takeuchi Y. Solution-processed silicon films and transistors. Nature 2006; 440: 783–786.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitajima M. Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chikalov I. Three Approaches to Data Analysis: Test Theory, Rough Sets and Logical Analysis of Data. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Chou P, Chen J. Enforced Mutation to Enhancing the Capability of Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms. In: Tan Y, Shi Y, Chai Y, Wang G, editors. Advances in Swarm Intelligence: Second International Conference, ICSI 2011, Chongqing, China, June 12-15, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011: 28–37.

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 World Journal of Diabetes.

Blog post

Andrew E. The Modern, Molecular Hunt For The World’s Biodiversity. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/modern-molecular-hunt-world-s-biodiversity/

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. Public Transportation: Requirements for Smaller Capital Projects Generally Seen as Less Burdensome. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hunt SA. A study of health care payment organizations’ culture and adaptability to revolutionary change. 2012.

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

Walsh MW. Moody’s Downgrade Deepens Puerto Rico’s Economic Problems. New York Times. 2012; : B9.

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	World Journal of Diabetes
ISSN (online)	1948-9358
Scope