How to format your references using the EBioMedicine citation style

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

[1]

Wand AJ. On the dynamic origins of allosteric activation. Science 2001;293:1395.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Balskus EP, Jacobsen EN. Asymmetric catalysis of the transannular Diels-Alder reaction. Science 2007;317:1736–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Quattrociocchi W, Caldarelli G, Scala A. Opinion dynamics on interacting networks: media competition and social influence. Sci Rep 2014;4:4938.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jones PJ, Huhtamäki JAM, Salmilehto J, Tan KY, Möttönen M. Tunable electromagnetic environment for superconducting quantum bits. Sci Rep 2013;3:1987.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Brown M, Cutler TJ. Haematology Nursing. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Bhushan M. Microelectronic Test Structures for CMOS Technology. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hulley H. The Economic Plausibility of Strict Local Martingales in Financial Modelling. In: Chiarella C, Novikov A, editors. Contemporary Quantitative Finance: Essays in Honour of Eckhard Platen, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 53–75.

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 EBioMedicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Your Personality Could Influence How Well You Fight Disease. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/your-personality-could-influence-how-well-you-fight-disease/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. United States Interests and Activities in Nepal. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hurwitz BL. Viral community dynamics and functional specialization in the Pacific Ocean. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 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

[1]

Vecsey G. Yankees and Red Sox Make September Meaningful. New York Times 2010:B17.

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	EBioMedicine
Abbreviation	EBioMedicine
ISSN (print)	2352-3964
Scope