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    • When preparing your theses, dissertations, assignments, manuscripts for journals, etc., references and bibliography are usually a requirement, and in a specific format and style. You will find some resources below to help you find your way around.

    Information related to thesis for undergraduate students

    Please refer to the Semmelweis University Organizational and Operational Regulations – Part III. Student Standards – Chapter III.2 Study and Examination Regulations – 2023 (Point 10./Article 46): "(5) Provisions concerning formal requirements, length, submission and delivery of the thesis shall be determined by faculty regulations."

    Information related to dissertation for PhD students

    On the Doctoral College’s website:

    When a manuscript to be submitted to a journal

    Thousands of styles can be associated with a journal and/or an organization. Most journals are based on widely used citation styles (APA, Vancouver, etc.). When submitting a manuscript, please refer to the authors' guidelines of the journal in question, where the citation style and bibliography formatting are outlined.

    Link to authors' instructions in the health sciences

    The University of Toledo/Mulford Health Science Library has compiled a collection of author guides to health and life science journals: http://mulford.utoledo.edu/instr/.

    If you cannot find the author's guide for the journal you are looking for in the link above, you should check the journal's website.

    The citation style is not specified

    If a faculty/department does not specify the style that should be used, it is advisable to choose from the most popular citation styles, e.g. APA (American Psychological Association), Vancouver/NLM.

    Reference samples

    We have highlighted some reference samples of document types in commonly used citation styles.

    APA 7th:

    For book:

    Donáth, T. (2016). Anatómiai nevek: Anatómia, szövet- és fejlődéstani terminológia (6th ed.). Medicina.

    For book chapter:

    Kam, L., & Vasiliauskas, E. A. (2003). New diagnostic approaches in inflammatory bowel disease. In S.R. Targan, F. Shanahan, & L. C. Karp (Eds.), Inflammatory bowel disease: from bench to bedside. (2nd ed., pp. 409-429). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25808-6_20

    For journal article:

    Gibson, C. M., Mehran, R., Bode, C., Halperin, J., Verheugt, F. W., Wildgoose, P., Birmingham, M., Ianus, J., Burton, P., van Eickels, M., Korjian, S., Daaboul, Y., Lip, G. Y., Cohen, M., Husted, S., Peterson, E. D., & Fox, K. A. (2016). Prevention of Bleeding in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing PCI. The New England Journal of Medicine, 375(25), 2423–2434. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1611594

    For website:

    World Health Organization. (2024, May 27). Post-traumatic stress disorder. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/post-traumatic-stress-disorder

    Help links for APA 7th citation style:

    Vancouver:

    For book:

    Donáth T. Anatómiai nevek: Anatómia, szövet- és fejlődéstani terminológia. 6th ed. Budapest: Medicina; 2016. 398 p.

    For book chapter:

    Kam L, Vasiliauskas EA. New diagnostic approaches in inflammatory bowel disease. In: Targan SR, Shanahan F, Karp LC, editors. Inflammatory bowel disease: from bench to bedside [Internet]. 2nd ed. Boston (MA): Springer; 2003 [cited 2024 Dec 13]. p. 409-429. Available from: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/0-387-25808-6_20

    For journal article:

    Gibson CM, Mehran R, Bode C, Halperin J, Verheugt FW, Wildgoose P, Birmingham M, Ianus J, Burton P, van Eickels M, Korjian S, Daaboul Y, Lip GY, Cohen M, Husted S, Peterson ED, Fox KA. Prevention of Bleeding in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing PCI. N Engl J Med. 2016;375(25):2423-2434. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1611594

    For website:

    Post-traumatic stress disorder [Internet]. World Health Organization; 2024 [cited 2024 Dec 17]. Available from: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/post-traumatic-stress-disorder

    Help links for Vancouver/NLM citation style:

    Chicago 17th:

    For book:

    Donáth, Tibor. Anatómiai nevek: Anatómia, szövet- és fejlődéstani terminológia. 6th ed. Budapest: Medicina, 2016.

    For book chapter:

    Kam, Lori and Vasiliauskas, Eric A. "New diagnostic approaches in inflammatory bowel disease." In Inflammatory bowel disease: from bench to bedside, 2nd ed., edited by Stephan R. Targan, Fergus Shanahan and Loren C. Karp, 409-429. Boston, MA: Springer, 2003. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25808-6_20

    For journal article:

    Gibson, C. Michael, Roxana Mehran, Christoph Bode, Jonathan Halperin, Freek W. Verheugt, Peter Wildgoose, Mary Birmingham, et al. “Prevention of Bleeding in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing PCI.” New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 25 (December 22, 2016): 2423–34. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1611594.

    For website:

    “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” World Health Organization, May 27, 2024. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/post-traumatic-stress-disorder.

    Help links for Chicago citation style:

    Tools for creating bibliographic items in a given citation style

    Reference managers

    There are programs (e.g. EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero) that allow you to insert the collected references into a word processor document and automatically create a bibliography based on the citations (in-text references). More information about these programs can be found in the Reference managers sub-menu of the Central Library's Research Support menu (university IP/VPN connection required): https://lib.semmelweis.hu/reference_managers.