General style notes

Example:

Salmonella infections are common worldwide with an estimated 150 million cases and 60,000 deaths annually.¹ The "Can I Eat That?" app² is a valuable tool for travellers in assessing the safety of consuming local food.

References

1. Plumb I, Fields P, Bruce B. Salmonellosis, Nontyphoidal. CDC Yellow Book 2024. Updated May 1, 2023. Accessed June 23, 2023. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2024/infections-diseases/salmonellosis-nontyphoidal

2. Seed SM, Khov SL, Binguad FS, Abraham GM, Aungst TD. Identification and review of mobile applications for travel medicine practitioners and patients. J Travel Med. 2016;23(4):taw034. doi:10.1093/jtm/taw034

• Order
  • numbered consecutively in the order they appear in the text
• Type of numbers
  • superscript Arabic numerals
    Example
    Several studies have shown^1,2 ...
• Postion of numbers
  • After a comma and before colons and semicolons.
    Example
    Previous research shows,⁴…
    The data were as follows⁵:
  • Try to avoid putting numbers at the end of the sentence. If needed put after the full stop.
    Example
    The design was informed by the need for bodily communication.⁶
• More than one source
  • Use commas without spaces to separate two sources
    Example
    The case studies^7,8 indicated...
  • For three or more references in numerical order, use a hyphen to join the first and last numbers.
    Example
    Meta-analysis of research shows,^9–14…

The reference list contains all the citations you have referred to in your text.

They appear in the same numerical order as the citations.

• Order of References
  • References are listed in numerical order, and in the same order in which they are cited in the text.
  • The reference list appears at the end of your paper, before appendices
• Formatting
  • Begin your reference list on a new page with the title 'References'.
  • Can be indented or not, your choice.

• Missing Elements
  • No year of publication = date unknown 
  • No publisher = Publisher unknown
  • No author =  do not replace it with Anonymous. This is only used if the author is specifically credited as Anonymous
• Journal abbreviations
  • Use the  NLM (National Library of Medicine) Catalog abbreviations, don’t make up your own.
• Author initials
  • Provide initials for all of the given names for each author with no spaces or punctuation.

Using the information on Re:cite should be enough to create citations and references, however if you need further information you can review the full style manual online.

AMA Manual of Style, 11th Edition (ebook).

EndNote

The JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) output style can be added to your list of styles.

Tools > Output styles > New style (choose JAMA) and add to your frequently used styles.

Zotero

You can download the style from the repository.

You can output the text of a reference in Vancouver style from PubMed.

This is suitable for placing directly in documents, not for use in reference management software.

Click Cite > Format (choose AMA)