GSBMS Thesis Style

GSBMS Thesis Style: Highlights

Document Text:

• Standard typeface (Courier or Times Roman), 12 point font size preferred.
• Double space all straight text. Quotations, footnotes, titles, table headings, legends and references should be single spaced.
• Document should be left-justified with an unjustified ("ragged") right margin.

References:

• Works are cited alphabetically at the end under References.
• Authors’ names are inverted, and use only initials for first and middle names.
• Use accepted Index Medicus abbreviations of journal names (see the NLM PubMed Journals Database).
• No month or issue # is used unless there is no volume # or if each issue begins with page number one.

In-Text Examples:

A new ARB olmesartan markedly reduced the myocardial injury involved in murine acute myocarditis caused by CVB3. (Seko, 2005)

(S)-dimethindene could be a valuable agent to test the hypothesis that M2 antagonists show beneficial effects in the treatment of cognitive disorders. (Lambrecht et al., 1995)

The objective is to progress toward the development of design guidelines that may help minimize known threats. (Jackson, Hilborn, and Thomas, 2006; Krause and Herzer, 2005; Rossi, 2005)

Reference List Examples:

Journal article (1-6 authors):
1. Fischer JR, LeBlanc KT, Leong JM. Fibronectin binding protein BBK32 of the lyme disease spirochete promotes bacterial attachment to glycosaminoglycans. Infect Immun. 2006;74:435-441.

Journal article with more than six authors:
2. Lambrecht G, Gross J, Hacksell U, Hermanni U, Hildebrandt C, Hou X, Moser U, Nilsson BM, Pfaff O, Waelbroeck M. The design and pharmacology of novel selective muscarinic agonists and antagonists. Life Sci. 1995;56:815-822.

Entire Book:
3. Gosselin RE, Smith RP, Hodge HC, Braddock JE. Clinical Toxicology of Commercial Products. 5th ed. Baltimore, Md.: Williams & Wilkins; 1984.

Book Chapter:
4. Griffin JP, D'Arcy PF. Drug interactions with lipid lowering agents. In: A Manual of Adverse Drug Interactions. 5th ed. New York, NY: Elsevier; 1997:209-216.

Electronic Journal Article:
5. Howley LD, Martindale J. The efficacy of standardized patient feedback in clinical teaching: A mixed methods analysis. Med Educ Online [serial online]. 2004;9:18. Available from: http://www.med-ed-online.org/res00104.htm. Accessed January 6, 2006.

Web Site:
6. European Bioinformatics Institute. Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases. Available at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/News/pdf/22_08_2005_ebi100gb.pdf. Accessed January 9, 2006.

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Staff of the Health Sciences Library developed this guide to provide basic assistance in applying GSBMS Thesis style. The examples above do not cover every possible type of publication or exception.

For more information, see Guidelines for Preparing the Master's Literature Review, the Master’s Thesis & the Doctoral Dissertation the official text that provides information about the requirements of the Graduate School of Basic Medical Sciences and the American Medical Association Manual of Style on Reserve in the Health Sciences Library, Call # WZ 345 A511 2007.

Updated by D. Crooke 3/14/2008