How to format your references using the Experimental Biomedical Research citation style

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

Smartt SJ. Astrophysics: A twist in the tale of γ-ray bursts. Nature 2015;523(7559):164–166.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Liao J-Q, Nori F. Single-photon quadratic optomechanics. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:6302.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Biswas AK, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S. An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:7553.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Perfit MR, Cann JR, Fornari DJ, Engels J, Smith DK, Ridley WI et al. Interaction of sea water and lava during submarine eruptions at mid-ocean ridges. Nature 2003;426(6962):62–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rohde UL, Jain GC, Poddar AK, Ghosh AK. Introduction to Integral Calculus. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Siebentritt S, Rau U, eds. Wide-Gap Chalcopyrites. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dixon I, Whittaker G. Streaming Your Media Collection from Windows Devices. In: Whittaker G, ed. Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10: Music, Movies, and TV for PCs, Tablets, and Phones. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015:83–99.

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 Experimental Biomedical Research.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. What’s The Point Of Sex? It’s Good For Your Physical, Social And Mental Health. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whats-the-point-of-sex-its-good-for-your-physical-social-and-mental-health/. 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. Public Transit: FTA’s Process for Overseeing Compliance with Federal Civil Rights Requirements Incorporates Key Federal Practices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McCarter KM. The effect of auditory stimulation on learners with different learning styles. 2008.

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]

Bolon A-S, Karasz P, McKINLEY JC Jr. At Least 13 Killed in Vehicle Attack on Spanish Street. New York Times. August 17, 2017:A1.

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	Experimental Biomedical Research
ISSN (online)	2618-6454
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