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

Cook RF: Materials science. Probing the nanoscale. Science 328: 183–184, 2010.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brown ME and Schaller EL: The mass of dwarf planet Eris. Science 316: 1585, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fändrich M, Fletcher MA and Dobson CM: Amyloid fibrils from muscle myoglobin. Nature 410: 165–166, 2001.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Rico C, Normandeau E, Dion-Côté A-M, Rico MI, Côté G and Bernatchez L: Combining next-generation sequencing and online databases for microsatellite development in non-model organisms. Sci Rep 3: 3376, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diels J-C and Arissian L: Lasers. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

Marchisio DL and Fox RO: Multiphase Reacting Flows: Modelling and Simulation. Springer, Vienna, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Constantinescu C: A Remark on W*-Tensor Products of W*-Algebras. In: Nonlinear Analysis and Variational Problems: In Honor of George Isac. Pardalos PM, Rassias TM and Khan AA (eds.) Springer, New York, NY, pp37–52, 2010.

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

Andrew E: “Mother” Robot Builds Evolving Babies. IFLScience, 2015.

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: Johnson Space Center Procurement: Controls Over Payments to Contractors Should Be Strengthened. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Campbell AJ: History transformed: Sengoku Daimyo in Japanese popular media., 2012.

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

Turkewitz J: Language Barrier Continues to Thwart Victims of Crimes. New York Times: A14, 2014.

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