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

Mooij H: Physics. The road to quantum computing. Science 307: 1210–1211, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Suster ML and Bate M: Embryonic assembly of a central pattern generator without sensory input. Nature 416: 174–178, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Savukov IM, Lee S-K and Romalis MV: Optical detection of liquid-state NMR. Nature 442: 1021–1024, 2006.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Woo HA, Chae HZ, Hwang SC, Yang K-S, Kang SW, Kim K and Rhee SG: Reversing the inactivation of peroxiredoxins caused by cysteine sulfinic acid formation. Science 300: 653–656, 2003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sellars C: Risk Assessment in People with Learning Disabilities. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Wubbels T: Interpersonal Relationships in Education: An Overview of Contemporary Research. (Brok PD, Tartwijk J van and Levy J (eds.)). SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Ekbom B: Pests and Their Enemies in Spring Oilseed Rape in Europe and Challenges to Integrated Pest Management. In: Biocontrol-Based Integrated Management of Oilseed Rape Pests. Williams IH (ed.) Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp151–165, 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

Carpineti A: Juno Has Just Entered The Gravitational Well Of Jupiter. 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: Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Provision of Charitable Assistance. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gandarilla AH: Family preservation: A content analysis of literature., 2009.

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

(nyt) SK: World Briefing | Europe: Estonia: Vodka Pipeline. New York Times: A6, 2004.

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