EXAMPLES OF REFERENCES AS PER KMUJ STYLE

 

Articles in Journals

  1. Standard journal article

Up to six authors: Joya SJ, Aziz MT, Suleman H, Abu-Talib M, Hussain I, Khosa GK. Hematological manifestations of celiac disease among children: a single center study from South Punjab, Pakistan. Khyber Med Univ J 2020;13(1): 43-6. https://doi.org/10.35845/kmuj.2021.20843.

More than six authors: List the first six authors followed by et al.

Parkin DM, Clayton D, Black RJ, Masuyer E, Friedl HP, Ivanov E, et al. Childhood leukaemia in Europe after Chernobyl: 5 year follow-up. Br J Cancer 1996;73:1006-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1996.197

  1. Organization as author:

The Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand. Clinical exercise stress testing. Safety and performance guidelines. Med J Aust 1996; 164:282-4.

Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension 2002;40(5):679-86. https://doi.org/10.1161/01.hyp.0000035706.28494.09

  1. Both personal authors and organization as author (List all as they appear in the byline.)

Vallancien G, Emberton M, Harving N, van Moorselaar RJ; Alf-One Study Group. Sexual dysfunction in 1,274 European men suffering from lower urinary tract symptoms. J Urol 2003;169(6):2257-61. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000067940.76090.73

  1. No author given

Cancer in South Africa [editorial]. S Afr Med J 1994; 84:15.

21st century heart solution may have a sting in the tail. Br Med J 2002;325(7357):184. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.325.7357.184

  1. Article not in English:

Ellingsen AE, Wilhelmsen I. Sykdomsangst blant medisin- og jusstudenter. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2002;122(8):785-7. Norwegian

(Note: NLM translates the title to English, encloses the translation in square brackets, and adds an abbreviated language designator.)

Ellingsen AE, Wilhelmsen I. [Disease anxiety among medical students and law students]. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 2002;122(8):785-7. Norwegian.

 

  1. Volume with supplement:

Shen HM, Zhang QF. Risk assessment of nickel carcinogenicity and occupational lung cancer. Environ Health Perspect 1994;102 Suppl 1:275-82. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.94102s1275

 

  1. Issue with supplement

Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical practice. Neurology 2002;58(12 Suppl 7):S6-12. https://doi.org/ 10.1212/wnl.58.12_suppl_7.s6

 

  1. Volume with part

Ozben T, Nacitarhan S, Tuncer N. Plasma and urine sialic acid in non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Ann Clin Biochem 1995;32(Pt 3):303-6. https://doi.org/10.1177/000456329503200307

 

  1. Issue with part

Ahrar K, Madoff DC, Gupta S, Wallace MJ, Price RE, Wright KC. Development of a large animal model for lung tumors. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2002;13(9 Pt 1):923-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1051-0443(07)61776-x

 

  1. Issue with no volume

Banit DM, Kaufer H, Hartford JM. Intraoperative frozen section analysis in revision total joint arthroplasty. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2002;(401):230-8. https://doi.org/10.1097/00003086-200208000-00026.

 

  1. No issue or volume

Browell DA, Lennard TW. Immunologic status of the cancer patient and the effects of blood transfusion on antitumor responses. Curr Opin Gen Surg 1993:325-33.

 

  1. Pagination in Roman numerals

Fisher GA, Sikic BI. Drug resistance in clinical oncology and hematology. Introduction. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am 1995 Apr;9(2):xi-xii.

 

  1. Type of article indicated as needed

Enzensberger W, Fischer PA. Metronome in Parkinson’s disease [letter]. Lancet 1996;347(9011):1337. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90987-3

Clement J, De Bock R. Hematological complications of hantavirus nephropathy (HVN) [abstract]. Kidney Int 1992;42:1285.

 

  1. Article containing retraction

Garey CE, Schwarzman AL, Rise ML, Seyfried TN. Ceruloplasmin gene defect associated with epilepsy in EL mice. Nat Genet 1994;6(4):426-31. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0494-426. Retraction in: Garey CE, Schwarzman AL, Rise ML, Seyfried TN. Ceruloplasmin gene defect associated with epilepsy in EL mice. Nat Genet 1995;11(1):104. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng0995-104f.

 

Article containing a partial retraction:

Starkman JS, Wolder CE, Gomelsky A, Scarpero HM, Dmochowski RR. Voiding dysfunction after removal of eroded slings. J Urol 2006;176(6 Pt 1):2749. Partial retraction of: Starkman JS, Wolter C, Gomelsky A, Scarpero HM, Dmochowski RR. J Urol 2006;176(3):1040-4.

 

 

  1. Article retracted

Feifel D, Moutier CY, Perry W. Safety and tolerability of a rapidly escalating dose-loading regimen for risperidone. J Clin Psychiatry 2000;61(12):909-11. Retraction in: Feifel D, Moutier CY, Perry W. J Clin Psychiatry 2002;63(2):169.

 

Article partially retracted:

Starkman JS, Wolter C, Gomelsky A, Scarpero HM, Dmochowski RR. Voiding dysfunction following removal of eroded synthetic mid urethral slings. J Urol 2006;176(3):1040-4. Partial retraction in: Starkman JS, Wolder CE, Gomelsky A, Scarpero HM, Dmochowski RR. J Urol 2006;176(6 Pt 1):2749.

 

  1. Article republished with corrections

Mansharamani M, Chilton BS. The reproductive importance of P-type ATPases. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2001;183(1-2):123-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0303-7207(01)00596-2 Corrected and republished from: Mol Cell Endocrinol 2002;188(1-2):22-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0303-7207(02)00038-2

 

  1. Article with published erratum

Malinowski JM, Bolesta S. Rosiglitazone in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a critical review. Clin Ther 2000;22(10):1151-68; discussion 1149-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0149-2918(00)83060-x Erratum in: Clin Ther 2001;23(2):309.

 

  1. Article published electronically ahead of the print version

Yu WM, Hawley TS, Hawley RG, Qu CK. Immortalization of yolk sac-derived precursor cells. Blood. 2002 Nov 15;100(10):3828-31. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2002-03-0937. Epub 2002 Jul 5.

 

Books and Other Monographs

(Note: Previous Vancouver style incorrectly had a comma rather than a semicolon between the publisher and the date.)

 

  1. Personal author(s)

Ringsven MK, Bond D. Gerontology and leadership skills for nurses. 2nd ed. Albany (NY): Delmar Publishers; 1996.

 

Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical Microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.

 

  1. Editor(s), compiler(s) as author

Norman IJ, Redfern SJ, editors. Mental health care for elderly people. New York: Churchill Livingstone; 1996.

 

Gilstrap LC 3rd, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten JP, editors. Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002.

 

  1. Author(s) and editor(s)

Breedlove GK, Schorfheide AM. Adolescent pregnancy. 2nd ed. Wieczorek RR, editor. White Plains (NY): March of Dimes Education Services; 2001.

 

 

  1. Organization as author and publisher

Institute of Medicine (US). Looking at the future of the Medicaid program. Washington: The Institute; 1992.

 

  1. Chapter in a book

(Note: Previous Vancouver style had a colon rather than a p before pagination.)

Phillips SJ, Whisnant JP. Hypertension and stroke. In: Laragh JH, Brenner BM, editors. Hypertension: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management. 2nd ed. New York: Raven Press; 1995. p. 465-78.

 

Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.

 

  1. Conference proceedings

Kimura J, Shibasaki H, editors. Recent advances in clinical neurophysiology. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of EMG and Clinical Neurophysiology; 1995 Oct 15-19; Kyoto, Japan. Amsterdam: Elsevier; 1996.

 

Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.

 

  1. Conference paper

Bengtsson S, Solheim BG. Enforcement of data protection, privacy and security in medical informatics. In: Lun KC, Degoulet P, Piemme TE, Rienhoff O, editors. MEDINFO 92. Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 1992 Sep 6-10; Geneva, Switzerland. Amsterdam: North-Holland; 1992. p. 1561-5.

 

Christensen S, Oppacher F. An analysis of Koza's computational effort statistic for genetic programming. In: Foster JA, Lutton E, Miller J, Ryan C, Tettamanzi AG, editors. Genetic programming. EuroGP 2002: Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming; 2002 Apr 3-5; Kinsdale, Ireland. Berlin: Springer; 2002. p. 182-91.

 

  1. Scientific or technical report

Issued by funding/sponsoring agency:

Smith P, Golladay K. Payment for durable medical equipment billed during skilled nursing facility stays. Final report. Dallas (TX): Dept. of Health and Human Services (US), Office of Evaluation and Inspections; 1994 Oct. Report No.: HHSIGOEI69200860.

 

Issued by performing agency:

Field MJ, Tranquada RE, Feasley JC, editors. Health services research: work force and educational issues. Washington: National Academy Press; 1995. Contract No.: AHCPR282942008. Sponsored by the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research.

 

  1. Dissertation

Kaplan SJ. Post-hospital home health care: the elderly’s access and utilization [dissertation]. St. Louis (MO): Washington Univ.; 1995.

 

  1. Patent

Larsen CE, Trip R, Johnson CR, inventors; Novoste Corporation, assignee. Methods for procedures related to the electrophysiology of the heart. US patent 5,529,067. 1995 Jun 25.

 

Other Published Material

 

  1. Newspaper article

Tynan T. Medical improvements lower homicide rate: study sees drop in assault rate. The Washington Post 2002 Aug 12. Accessed on: July 28, 2020. Available from URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/08/12/medical-improvements-lower-homicide-rate/7067e6d2-02f9-4900-bfbf-d647c748a1cf/

 

  1. Audiovisual material

Chason KW, Sallustio S. Hospital preparedness for bioterrorism [videocassette]. Secaucus (NJ): Network for Continuing Medical Education; 2002.

 

  1. Legal Material

Public law:

Veterans Hearing Loss Compensation Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-9, 115 Stat. 11 (May 24, 2001).

 

Unenacted bill:

Healthy Children Learn Act, S. 1012, 107th Cong., 1st Sess. (2001).

 

Code of Federal Regulations:

Cardiopulmonary Bypass Intracardiac Suction Control, 21 C.F.R. Sect. 870.4430 (2002).

 

Hearing:

Arsenic in Drinking Water: An Update on the Science, Benefits and Cost: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Environment, Technology and Standards of the House Comm. on Science, 107th Cong., 1st Sess. (Oct. 4, 2001).

 

  1. Map

Pratt B, Flick P, Vynne C, cartographers. Biodiversity hotspots [map]. Washington: Conservation International; 2000.

 

  1. Dictionary and similar references

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary. 29th ed. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; 2000. Filamin; p. 675.

 

Unpublished Material

 

  1. Forthcoming and Preprints

(Note: NLM prefers “forthcoming” because not all items will be printed.)

Leshner AI. Molecular mechanisms of cocaine addiction. N Engl J Med Forthcoming 1996.

 

Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Forthcoming 2002.

 

Alvarez R. Near optimal neural network estimator for spectral x-ray photon counting data with pileup. arXiv:1702.01006v1 [Preprint]. 2017 [Accessed on: February 09, 2017]: [11 p.]. Available from URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01006

 

Bar DZ, Atkatsh K, Tavarez U, Erdos MR, Gruenbaum Y, Collins FS. Biotinylation by antibody recognition- A novel method for proximity labeling. BioRxiv 069187 [Preprint]. 2016 [Accessed on: Januray 12, 2017]. Available from URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/069187v1

 

Kording KP, Mensh B. Ten simple rules for structuring papers. BioRxiv [Preprint]. 2016 BioRxiv 088278 [Posted on: November 28, 2016; Revised on: December 14, 2016; Accessed on: February 09, 2017]: [12 p.]. Available from URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/088278v5.  https://doi.org/10.1101/088278

 

Rupprecht C. Ready for more-than-human? Urban residents’ willingness to coexist with animals and plants. Version: 1. SocArXiv [Preprint]. [Posted on: July 13, 2016; Revised on: December 07, 2016; Accessed on: February 15, 2017]: [22 p.]. Available from URL: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/hbcmz/.

 

 

Electronic Material

 

  1. CD-ROM

Anderson SC, Poulsen KB. Anderson's electronic atlas of hematology [CD-ROM]. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2002.

 

  1. Journal article on the Internet

Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [Accessed on: August 12, 2002];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available from URL:https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2002/06000/Quality_Improvement_Initiative_in_Nursing_Homes.31.aspx.

Optional presentation (omits bracketed phrase that qualifies the journal title abbreviation):

Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs. 2002 Jun [Accessed on: August 12, 2002];102(6):[about 1 p.]. Available from URL: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2002/06000/Quality_Improvement_Initiative_in_Nursing_Homes.31.aspx

 

  1. Journal article in electronic format

Morse SS. Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases. Emerg Infect Dis [serial online] 1995 Jan-Mar [Accessed on: June 05, 1996];1(1):[24 screens]. Available from: URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/eid.htm

 

  1. Monograph in electronic format

CDI, clinical dermatology illustrated [monograph on CD-ROM]. Reeves JRT, Maibach H. CMEA Multimedia Group, producers. 2nd ed. Version 2.0. San Diego: CMEA; 1995.

 

  1. Computer file

Hemodynamics III: the ups and downs of hemodynamics [computer program]. Version 2.2. Orlando (FL): Computerized Educational Systems; 1993.

 

  1. Part of a homepage/Web site

American Medical Association [Internet]. Chicago: The Association; c1995-2016 [Accessed on: December 27, 2016]. Office of International Medicine; [about 2 screens]. Available from URL: https://www.ama-assn.org/about/office-international-medicine

 

  1. Database on the Internet

Open database:

Who's Certified [Internet]. Evanston (IL): The American Board of Medical Specialists. c2000 - [Accessed on: March 08, 2001]. Available from URL: https://www.abms.org/verify-certification/

 

Closed database:

Jablonski S. Online Multiple Congenital Anomaly/Mental Retardation (MCA/MR) Syndromes [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); c1999 [Updated November 20, 2001; Accessed on: August 12, 2002]. Available from URL: //www.nlm.nih.gov/archive//20061212/mesh/jablonski/syndrome_title.html

 

  1. Part of a database on the Internet

MeSH Browser [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): U.S. National Library of Medicine; 2002 -   . Meta-analysis; [Accessed on: December 01, 2017]; [about 1 p.]. Available from URL: https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/record/ui?ui=D017418 MeSH Unique ID: D017418.

 

  1. Blogs

Holt M. The Health Care Blog [Internet]. San Francisco: Matthew Holt. 2003 Oct - [Accessed on: February 13, 2009]. Available from URL: http://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/category/matthew-holt/.

 

Contribution to a blog:

Mantone J. Head trauma haunts many, researchers say. January 29, 2008 [Accessed on: February 13, 2009]. In: Wall Street Journal. HEALTH BLOG [Internet]. New York: Dow Jones & Company, Inc. c2008 -   . [about 1 screen]. Available from URL: https://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/01/29/head-trauma-haunts-many-researchers-say/.

 

Campbell A. Diabetes and alcohol: do the two mix? (Part 2). January 28, 2008 [Accessed on: February 13, 2009]. In: Diabetes Self-Management Blog [Internet]. New York: Diabetes Self-Management. [August 14, 2006] -  2 p. Available from URL: https://www.diabetesselfmanagement.com/blog/Amy_Campbell/Diabetes_and_Alcohol_Do_the_Two_Mix_Part_2

 

  1. Datasets

Dataset description article:

Kraemer MU, Sinka ME, Duda KA, Mylne A, Shearer FM, Brady OJ, et al.  The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence. Sci Data July 07, 2015 [Accessed on: October 23, 2015];2:150035. Available from URL: http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201535. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2015.35. eCollection 2015.

 

Dataset deposit record: Simplified format

Kraemer MUG, Sinka ME, Duda KA, Mylne A, Shearer FM, Brady OJ, et al. The global compendium of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus occurrence [dataset]. June 30, 2015 [Accessed on: October 23, 2015]. Dryad Digital Repository. Available from: https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.47v3c Referenced in DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08347 

 

Dataset repository: Simplified format

Dryad Digital Repository. Durham (NC): Dryad. [Accessed on: October 03, 2014]. Available from URL: https://www.datadryad.org/.

 

Dataset: Simplified format

RxNorm [dataset]. April 4, 2016 Full Monthly Release. 2016 Apr 4 [Accessed on: April 18, 2016]. Available from URL: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/docs/rxnormfiles.html

 

  1. Software on the Internet

A full citation for software on the Internet can follow the general guidelines in Item #44 for datasets or in Citing Medicine, Chapter 24 for databases and retrieval systems. Software in other media such as CD-ROM is detailed in Citing Medicine, Chapter 21.

Software: Simplified format

Publisher is optional and place of publication is not needed. Strive to include an Available from: note with a URL or a doi: xxxxxxx note. Other helpful notes can be added at the end such as a System Requirements note.

Hayes B, Tesar B, Zurow K. OTSoft: Optimality Theory Software. Version 2.3.2 [software]. 2013 Jan 14 [Accessed on: February 14, 2015]. Available from URL: https://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/hayes/otsoft/.

Golda TG, Hough PD, Gay G. APPSPACK (Asynchronous Parallel Pattern Search). Version 5.0.1 [software]. Sandia National Laboratories. 2007 Feb 16 [Accessed on: April 04, 2016; Downloaded:  January 05, 2010]. Available from URL: https://dakota.sandia.gov/packages/hopspack