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

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

Hardcastle MJ. Astronomy. Revealing the gamma-ray jet in a black hole binary. Science 2011; 332: 429–430.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saul J, Vinnik L. Earth science: Mantle deformation or processing artefact? Nature 2003; 422: 136; discussion 136.

A journal article with 3 authors

Otto A, White JD, Simoneit BRT. Natural product terpenoids in Eocene and Miocene conifer fossils. Science 2002; 297: 1543–1545.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ates S, Agha I, Gulinatti A, Rech I, Badolato A, Srinivasan K. Improving the performance of bright quantum dot single photon sources using temporal filtering via amplitude modulation. Sci Rep 2013; 3: 1397.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lemma A. Introduction to the Practice of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. West Sussex, England: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Kwiecień A, Gaj P, Stera P (eds). Computer Networks: 16th Conference, CN 2009, Wisła, Poland, June 16-20, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Creath R. (Anti-)Metaphysics in the Thirties And Why Should Anyone Care Now? In: Galavotti MC, Nemeth E, Stadler F, editors. European Philosophy of Science – Philosophy of Science in Europe and the Viennese Heritage. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014: 67–76.

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 Translational Medicine.

Blog post

Davis J. Amazon Rainforest Could Be Set For An Intense Wildfire Season Driven By El Niño. IFLScience. 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/amazon-rainforest-could-be-set-for-an-intense-wildfire-season-driven-by-el-nio/

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. NASA: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Assess Long-Term Affordability of Human Exploration Programs. 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

Tanner-Anderson SL. ‘The Road Less Traveled’: The Female’s Journey to the State Superintendency. 2014.

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

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times. 2017; : C25.

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 Translational Medicine
ISSN (online)	2220-6132
Scope