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Journal Articles & Preprints

  Format Example
Online articles with DOIs

#. Author AA, Author BB. Title of the article. Abbreviated name of journal. Publication Year;Volume#(Issue#):Page range or e-locator. doi:##.###/###.####

Note: The spaces (or lack thereof) between punctuation/words/numbers is intentional and important to adhere to.

AMA Guide section 3.11.1

1. Alwhaibi A, Alsanea S, Almadi B, Al-Sabhan J, Alosaimi FD. Androgen deprivation therapy and depression in the prostate cancer patients: review of risk and pharmacological management. Aging Male. 2022;25(1):101-124. doi:10.1080/13685538.2022.2053954

2. Liu Z, Tang W, Liu J, et al. A novel sprayable thermosensitive hydrogel coupled with zinc modified metformin promotes the healing of skin wound. Bioact Mater. 2022;20:610-626. doi:10.1016/j.bioactmat.2022.06.008

Online articles with URLs

Always use DOI if available.

#. Author AA, Author BB. Title of the article. Abbreviated name of journal. Publication Year;Volume#(Issue#):Page range or e-locator. Accessed Month DD, YYYY. https://www.example.ca

AMA Guide section 3.11.4

1. Miles LF, Couture EJ, Potes C, Makar T, Fernando MC, et al. Preliminary experience with continuous right ventricular pressure and transesophageal echocardiography monitoring in orthotopic liver transplantation. PLOS ONE. 2022;17(2):e0263386. Accessed July 22, 2022. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/citation?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0263386

Preprint articles

Preprints are unpublished articles pending peer review.

#. Author AA, Author BB. Title of the article. Name of online source/publisher. Preprint posted online Month DD, YYYY. doi:##.###/###.####

-or- if article has been accepted by journal but not published yet:

#. Author AA, Author BB. Title of the article. Abbreviated name of journal. Accepted manuscript. Published online Month DD, YYYY. doi:##.###/###.####

AMA Guide section 3.11.4.1

1. Keast M, Bonacci J, Fox A. Geometric variation of the human tibia-fibula: a public dataset of tibia-fibula surface meshes and statistical shape model. bioRxiv. Preprint posted online August 5, 2022. doi:10.1101/2022.08.04.502722

2. Takahashi T, Garcia J, Hosseini A, et al. Measuring engagement and treatment adherence with wearable biometric trackers in geriatric populations. J Biotr & Met. Accepted manuscript. Published online July 9, 2022. doi:5.489/2022.114.025
Print/hardcopy articles #. Author AA, Author BB. Title of the article. Abbreviated name of journal. Publication Year;Volume#(Issue#):Page range.

1. Guo X, Ma Y, Min Y, et al. Progress and prospect of technical and regulatory challenges on tissue-engineered cartilage as therapeutic combination product. Bioact Mater. 2022;20:501-518.

General Rules

  • How to format in-text citations in your document.
  • Author/editor names: Last name + First name initial + Middle name initial (if available). e.g., Armand Peter Smith = Smith AP.
  • The names of all authors and editors should be given unless there are more than 6 (7 or more), in which case the names of the first 3 authors are used, followed by “et al”). e.g., Smith TP, Brown A, McLane E, et al.
  • No authors, organization, or editors listed? Contact library@saskhealthauthority.ca to ask a librarian.
  • Titles: Follow examples when using upper- and lowercase initials and italics. Do not use quotation marks for titles (e.g., "Title").
  • Subtitles: Use the colon (i.e., : ) to separate the title from the subtitle. e.g., Rural Healthcare: A Definitive Guide.
  • Dates: Spell out the full month name for 'Accessed' date. e.g., June, not Jun or 06. 
  • Proper nouns: Always capitalize the first initial of country/city, person, clinical tool, organization, and/or association names.