Citing Medicine from the National Library of Medicine provides assistance to authors in compiling lists of references for their publications, to editors in revising such lists, to publishers in setting reference standards for their authors and editors, and to librarians and others in formatting bibliographic citations.

Citing Medicine updates and supersedes two previous National Library of Medicine publications:

• Patrias K. National Library of Medicine recommended formats for bibliographic citation [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): The Library; 1991. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/recommendedformats.pdf
• Patrias K. National Library of Medicine recommended formats for bibliographic citation. Supplement: Internet formats [Internet]. Bethesda (MD): The Library; 2001 Jul. Available from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/formats/internet.pdf