How to format your references using the Biomedicines citation style

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

Barry, J.M. Pandemics: Avoiding the Mistakes of 1918. Nature 2009, 459, 324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Medema, J.P.; Vermeulen, L. Microenvironmental Regulation of Stem Cells in Intestinal Homeostasis and Cancer. Nature 2011, 474, 318–326.

A journal article with 3 authors

Omabegho, T.; Sha, R.; Seeman, N.C. A Bipedal DNA Brownian Motor with Coordinated Legs. Science 2009, 324, 67–71.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaban, B.; Liu, W.; Jiang, X.; Nick, P. Plant Cells Use Auxin Efflux to Explore Geometry. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Petrucelli, J.R. Detecting Fraud in Organizations; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118555972.

An edited book

Advances in Visual Computing: 4th International Symposium, ISVC 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA, December 1-3, 2008. Proceedings, Part I; Bebis, G., Boyle, R., Parvin, B., Koracin, D., Remagnino, P., Porikli, F., Peters, J., Klosowski, J., Arns, L., Chun, Y.K., Rhyne, T.-M., Monroe, L., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5358; ISBN 9783540896388.

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, J. Mean-Variance Analysis: A New Document Ranking Theory in Information Retrieval. In Advances in Information Retrieval: 31th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2009, Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009. Proceedings; Boughanem, M., Berrut, C., Mothe, J., Soule-Dupuy, C., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 4–16 ISBN 9783642009570.

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 Biomedicines.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Strange Object At The Center Of The Milky Way (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Aircraft Noise At Memphis International Airport; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1996;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ploehs, J.R. The Literacy Benefits of Middle School Tutors Who Tutor Emergent Readers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH, 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

Pilon, M. Rooting On Home Team, and Voting on Its G.M. New York Times 2012, B12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Biomedicines
Abbreviation	Biomedicines
ISSN (online)	2227-9059
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