The Partnership recommends using the National Library of Medicine (NLM) Citation style. However, when submitting work for other publications, the publisher may ask you to use their own house style.
Here are a few common examples of NLM citations:
Standard journal article
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-7.
Standard journal article (more than six authors)
Rose ME, Huerbin MB, Melick J, Marion DW, Palmer AM, Schiding JK, et al. Regulation of interstitial excitatory amino acid concentrations after cortical contusion injury. Brain Res. 2002;935(1-2):40-6.
Standard journal article (organization as author)
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.
Conference paper
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.
For more information and examples in NLM Citation style, please see: Samples of Formatted References for Authors of Journal Articles.
When using a citation manager such as Zotero or Mendeley, search for “National Library of Medicine” style.
For additional guidance, please contact kmb@partnershipagainstcancer.ca.
