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]

Cyranoski D. Japanese team makes stem cells. Nature 2003;423:577.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goto H, Uchikawa H. Fault-tolerant quantum computation with a soft-decision decoder for error correction and detection by teleportation. Sci Rep 2013;3:2044.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xiao Y, Wang Y, Felleman DJ. A spatially organized representation of colour in macaque cortical area V2. Nature 2003;421:535–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bose S, Singh R, Hanewich-Hollatz M, Shen C, Lee C-H, Dorfman DM, et al. Affinity flow fractionation of cells via transient interactions with asymmetric molecular patterns. Sci Rep 2013;3:2329.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Davis TG. Java® and Mac OS® X. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Hill PM, editor. Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 15th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 3901. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jofré Luna IC. The Mark of the Indian Still Inhabits Our Body: On Ethics and Disciplining in South American Archaeology. In: Haber A, Shepherd N, editors. After Ethics: Ancestral Voices and Post-Disciplinary Worlds in Archaeology, New York, NY: Springer; 2015, p. 55–78.

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. The Big Friendly Giants of the Cambrian Ocean. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/big-friendly-giants-cambrian-ocean/ (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. Release of Carson City Silver Dollar Bidders List. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Day JP. Semirelativistic few body problems with matrix continued fraction methods. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Walsh MW. A Warning on Bankruptcy in Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis. New York Times 2016:B3.

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
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