How to format your references using the Biomedical Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Reviews. 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

Gewin V. Biomedicine meets engineering. Nature. 2003 Sep 18;425(6955):324–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Neronov A, Vovk I. Evidence for strong extragalactic magnetic fields from Fermi observations of TeV blazars. Science. 2010 Apr 2;328(5974):73–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Croxall JP, Trathan PN, Murphy EJ. Environmental change and Antarctic seabird populations. Science. 2002 Aug 30;297(5586):1510–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kapp FG, Perlin JR, Hagedorn EJ, Gansner JM, Schwarz DE, O’Connell LA, et al. Protection from UV light is an evolutionarily conserved feature of the haematopoietic niche. Nature. 2018 Jun;558(7710):445–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards A, Dafydd H. Key Notes on Plastic Surgery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Sarkis J, Cordeiro JJ, Vazquez Brust D, editors. Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. XV, 272 p.

A chapter in an edited book

de Medeiros AKA, Guzzo A, Greco G, van der Aalst WMP, Weijters AJMM, van Dongen BF, et al. Process Mining Based on Clustering: A Quest for Precision. In: Hofstede AT, Benatallah B, Paik HY, editors. Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2007 International Workshops, BPI, BPD, CBP, ProHealth, RefMod, semantics4ws, Brisbane, Australia, September 24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 17–29. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. Early Results of Human Trials For Anti-Aging Drug Are Promising [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/preliminary-results-early-human-trials-anti-aging-formulas-reveal-no-adverse/

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. Aviation Research: FAA Could Enhance Its Program to Meet Current and Future Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: RCED-92-180.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo M. The development of a viable business plan: Analytics of 30 day readmission rates for hospitals and ancillary services [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Brantley B. Theater; Three Sisters, Lots of Kvetching. New York Times. 2017 Jul 26;AR3.

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 Reviews
ISSN (print)	1310-392X
ISSN (online)	1314-1929
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine

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