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]

Boothroyd AI. Astronomy. Heavy elements in stars. Science 2006;314(5806):1690–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaminski D, Geisler C. Survival analysis of faculty retention in science and engineering by gender. Science 2012;335(6070):864–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Inaba M, Yamanaka H, Kondo S. Pigment pattern formation by contact-dependent depolarization. Science 2012;335(6069):677.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Xin L, Liu Y, Li B, Zhou X, Shen H, Zhao W et al. Constructing hierarchical submicrotubes from interconnected TiO₂ nanocrystals for high reversible capacity and long-life lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:4479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Norwitz ER, Belfort MA, Saade GR, Miller H. Obstetric Clinical Algorithms: Management and Evidence. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Kapucu N, Liou KT, eds. Disaster and Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Witelski T, Bowen M. Self-Similar Scaling Solutions of Differential Equations. In: Bowen M, ed. Methods of Mathematical Modelling: Continuous Systems and Differential Equations. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015:113–125.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Our Most Distant Space Exploration Mission Depends Upon These Next Few Weeks. IFLScience 2017. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-most-distant-space-exploration-mission-depends-upon-these-next-few-weeks/. 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. Administration of the Emergency School Aid Act by OE. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rogers RC. Documenting cultural transition through contact archaeology in Tíhoo, Mérida, Yucatán. 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]

Hartocollis A. NYU Langone Restarts Emergency Room Damaged by Hurricane Sandy. New York Times. April 25, 2014:A20.

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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