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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Schiermeier Q. Small is beautiful. Nature 2005;435(7041):532–533.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Yoshida N, Kanda J. Geochemistry. Tracking the Fukushima radionuclides. Science 2012;336(6085):1115–1116.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
De Marco García NV, Karayannis T, Fishell G. Neuronal activity is required for the development of specific cortical interneuron subtypes. Nature 2011;472(7343):351–355.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Castellino F, Huang AY, Altan-Bonnet G, Stoll S, Scheinecker C, Germain RN. Chemokines enhance immunity by guiding naive CD8+ T cells to sites of CD4+ T cell-dendritic cell interaction. Nature 2006;440(7086):890–895.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Böhm M. Symmetrien in Festkörpern. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.
An edited book
[1]
Li SZ, Jain AK, eds. Handbook of Face Recognition. Second Edition. London: Springer; 2011.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Stern F, Sadat-Hosseini H, Mousaviraad M, Bhushan S. Evaluation of Seakeeping Predictions. In: Larsson L, Stern F, Visonneau M, eds. Numerical Ship Hydrodynamics: An assessment of the Gothenburg 2010 Workshop. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014:141–202.

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 E. It’s The Year 2020…How’s Your Cybersecurity? IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/it-s-year-2020-how-s-your-cybersecurity/. 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. Guidelines for Survey of the Pricing of Negotiated Noncompetitive DOD Prime Contracts With McDonnell Douglas and Raytheon and NASA Prime Contracts With General Electric. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
McClurg AD. A phenomenological study of Baby Boomer retirement— Expectations, results, and implications. 2013.

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]
Greenhouse L. Justices Are Urged to Dismiss Padilla Case. New York Times. December 18, 2005:114.

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 titleExperimental Biomedical Research
ISSN (online)2618-6454
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