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

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

Boyd J. Tech.Sight. Robotic laboratory automation. Science 2002; 295: 517–518.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley SA, Evershed RP. Organic chemistry of embalming agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman mummies. Nature 2001; 413: 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tang C, Iwahara J, Clore GM. Visualization of transient encounter complexes in protein-protein association. Nature 2006; 444: 383–386.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Dymond JS, Richardson SM, Coombes CE, Babatz T, Muller H, Annaluru N, Blake WJ, Schwerzmann JW, Dai J, Lindstrom DL, Boeke AC, Gottschling DE, Chandrasegaran S, Bader JS, Boeke JD. Synthetic chromosome arms function in yeast and generate phenotypic diversity by design. Nature 2011; 477: 471–476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nyce DS. Position Sensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bisciotti G, Volpi P (eds). The Lower Limb Tendinopathies: Etiology, Biology and Treatment. Cham: Springer International Publishing

A chapter in an edited book

Wolf J, Vicente A, Gibbons P, Gardiner N, Tilbury J, Bugmann G, Culverhouse P. BunnyBot: Humanoid Platform for Research and Teaching. In: Kim J-H, Ge SS, Vadakkepat P, Jesse N, Al Manum A, Puthusserypady K S, Rückert U, Sitte J, Witkowski U, Nakatsu R, Braunl T, Baltes J, Anderson J, Wong C-C, Verner I, Ahlgren D, editors. Progress in Robotics: FIRA RoboWorld Congress 2009, Incheon, Korea, August 16-20, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009: 25–33.

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 Experimental Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew E. Why Volcanoes Erupt. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Student Athletes: Information on Their Academic Performance. 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

Goldstein TW. Writing in red: The East German Writers Union and the role of literary intellectuals in the German Democratic Republic, 1971-90. 2010.

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

Goldberg S. The town where mercury still rises. New York Times. 2017; : 0.

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 Experimental Medicine
ISSN (online)	2220-315X
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