How to format your references using the Biomedical Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Reports. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Marciano WJ: Particle physics: quarks are not ambidextrous. Nature 506: 43–44, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Behnia R and Munro S: Organelle identity and the signposts for membrane traffic. Nature 438: 597–604, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rideout WM 3rd, Eggan K and Jaenisch R: Nuclear cloning and epigenetic reprogramming of the genome. Science 293: 1093–1098, 2001.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hanashima C, Li SC, Shen L, Lai E and Fishell G: Foxg1 suppresses early cortical cell fate. Science 303: 56–59, 2004.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Li RC-H: RF Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

Haltinner K and Pilgeram R: Teaching Gender and Sex in Contemporary America. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang Y, Dai Z and Zhang W: SPH Modeling for Flow Slides in Landfills. In: Geo-disaster Modeling and Analysis: An SPH-based Approach. Dai Z and Zhang W (eds.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp115–132, 2014.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Biomedical Reports.

Blog post

Luntz S: Wind Farms Are Probably Good For Nearby Crops. IFLScience, 2016.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: ADP, IRM & Telecommunications. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1984.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Scharf MT: Comparing Student Cumulative Course Grades, Attrition, and Satisfaction in Traditional and Virtual Classroom Environments., 2015.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Montgomery D, Fernandez M and Joseph Y: Journey Fatal for 9 Migrants Found in Truck in a San Antonio Parking Lot. New York Times: A10, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1,2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Biomedical Reports
Abbreviation	Biomed. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2049-9434
ISSN (online)	2049-9442
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine General Neuroscience General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics