Citations for Medicine (LWW Journals) is not correct (citations only!)

Honey_Bee_FR
Hi, As I understand with some sample articles from their internet site, the citations for Medicine is in superscript (that is correct in medicine.csl) but also require brackets [ ].
I have not found any citation superscript AND WITH backets ; even the different generic Vancouver styles in the repository database has none -superscript AND brackets- (if I had found one ... I don't bother you)
Sorry and thanks.

  • adamsmith
    The "Medicine" style that we have is for the Elsevier one (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/medicine -- for which it is correct), not for the LWW one.

    We can look at adding a variant for the LWW Medicine journal, but in the meantime, how does this one look:
    https://www.zotero.org/styles?q=id:vancouver-superscript-brackets-only-year
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    Yes thanks for the quick response !
    Just a complement (as I have just inserted the bibliography) : if citations must be in brackets and in superscript, the references number must be in... brackets which is not the case with medicine.csl (reference numbers are: xx. rather than [xx] i.e. :
    [1] Malhotra C, Jain AK. Human amniotic membrane transplantation:
    different modalities of its use in ophthalmology. World J Transplant
    2014;4:111–21.
  • adamsmith
    If you're submitting to
    https://journals.lww.com/md-journal/Documents/Files and Resources/For Authors/Medicine Instructions for Authors.pdf
    I'd suggest just following their styleguide which says to use AMA style and not worry about how this looks in the journal. They might apply a house style on publication.
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    As you said, I have just tried vancouver-superscript-bracket-only-year but with this style, the bibliography numbers are not in brackets as Medicine ask for it.
    Citation numbers and Reference numbers must be in brackets for Medicine
  • adamsmith
    Could you say where they _ask_ for this? I see it in published articles, but it's not what they say in their instructions.
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    You are right but instructions for authors are very confusing and succint for Medicine.
    In fact (as usual) I just look at article samples as Medicine LWW is open.
    (meanwhile it is not in a hurry... because the article is not yet accepted...)
  • adamsmith
    but they very explicitly say to use AMA style, which is well defined (and available in Zotero)
  • Honey_Bee_FR
    ... and what a pity that Medicine provides only ....the Endnote file style... !
  • adamsmith
    They don't provide a separate Endnote style. They say: "EndNote users can access a direct download of the JAMA style at http://www.editorialmanager.com/md . Authors using other forms of reference management software should use JAMA style.

    Again, Zotero does have that style. Take yes for an answer.

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