- Your reference list should appear at the end of your assignment/report with the entries listed numerically and in the same order that they were given in the text.
Example:
It is very important that you use the right punctuation and that the order of details in the reference is also correct.
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- Baker PN, editor. Obstetrics by ten teachers. 18th ed. London: Hodder Arnold; 2006.
- Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002;347(4):284-7.
- Book and journal titles are not italicised or placed in quotation marks.
- Only first words of the article title and words that normally begin with a capital letter are capitalised.
- Journal titles are abbreviated. A list of abbreviations for the titles is available online at either NLM Catalog: Journal abbreviation or Medical Journal Abbreviations (Internationally recognised abbreviations for journal titles)
- If the journal has continuous page numbering, you may omit month/issue number.
- Some commonly used abbreviations:
- c. = circa (about, approximately in time)
- ch. = chapter
- ed. = edition
- et al. = and others
- fig; figs = figure(s)
- ill; ills = illustrator(s)
- p. = page(s)
- para; paras = paragraph(s)
- pt; pts = part(s)
- rev = revised
- suppl = Supplement
