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Journal articles

Journal titles

Abbreviate journal names, e.g. Current Journal of Neurology becomes Curr J Neurol. Abbreviations are available from PubMed's Journal Catalogue. For journals not listed in PubMed, see the CAS Source Index.

 EndNote allows you to import the correct abbreviations for journal titles, by importing 'journal terms lists.' See the Bond Library’s Guide to EndNote for the steps.

Journal articles

General format for reference list

  1. Author AA, Author BB, Author CC. Title of article: article subtitle. Abbreviated Journal Title. Year;Volume(Issue):Pages. doi:10.XXXXXX or Accessed Month DD, YYYY. URL

Examples

  1. Drummond P. Triggers of motion sickness in migraine sufferers. Headache. 2005;45(6):656-656. doi:10.1111/j.1526-4610.2005.05132.x
  2. Abstracts of the 51st Workshop for Pediatric Research. Mol Cell Pediatr. 2015;2(suppl 1):A1-A30. Accessed October 20, 2019. http://www.molcellped.com/supplements/2/S1/all
  3. Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical practice. Neurology. 2002;58(12)(suppl 7):S6-S12. doi:10.1212/WNL.58.12_suppl_7.S6
  4. Tritchler DL, Sucheston L, Chanda P, Ramanathan M. Information metrics in genetic epidemiology. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2011;10(1):Article 12. doi:10.2202/1544-6115.1569

Style notes

  • Some online articles will have an e-locator (e.g. ' CD007160', 'e11' or 'Article 52') instead of page numbers. E-locators are used in place of page numbers.
  • If no authors are listed, begin the citation with the title of the article.
  • Format articles without a volume as Year;(Issue):Pages or without an issue as Year;Volume:Pages. For journals that do not have volume and issue numbers, include the date the article was posted online, followed by the page numbers e.g. April 2002:518. For articles published online before being assigned volume, issue or page numbers, include the words 'published online' and the date, e.g. Published online August 10, 2020. 
  • For articles with supplement or part numbers, place these inside brackets instead of the issue number or in addition e.g. Volume(pt 1) or Volume(issue)(suppl 2).
  • Only include an ‘accessed date’ and URL for an online article where no DOI is available.

EndNote fields for manual entry

  • If a .RIS or. NBIB file is not available to download, create the EndNote reference manually.
  • Use the ‘Journal Article’ or 'Electronic Article' reference types.
  • Use the table to see which EndNote fields to use for each part of the reference.
Reference element   EndNote field
Author   Author
Article title   Title
Journal name   Journal
Year of publication   Year
Volume number   Volume
Issue   Issue
Part/supplement number   Part/supplement
Page range or e-locator   Pages
DOI   DOI
Accessed date - Month DD, YYYY (if DOI is not available)   Date accessed (use the Electronic Article type)
URL (if DOI is not available)   URL (use the Electronic Article type)