Citing Online and Print Sources: Home

From the University of Toledo, these pages provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.

Provides bibliographic information for all journals ever indexed in the PubMed® database. It includes titles that ceased publication, changed titles, or are no longer indexed.

Online book, SIUSM users only.

Provides suggestions and tutorials for using the citation style from the "Publication Manual of American Psychological Association".

This site provides an overview of citing primary literature with examples from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed, and the MLA Style Manual, 6th ed.

PDF version of the book published by the National Library of Medicine with 2015 updates.

The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) meet annually to revise the requirements as needed. The ICMJE is also concerned with the ethical principles related to publication in biomedical journals and have developed statements on editorial policies.