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]

Hillery M. Physics. Quantum walks through a waveguide maze. Science 2010;329(5998):1477–1478.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gandin V, Topisirovic I. Cell biology. Trans-HSF1 express. Science 2013;341(6143):242–243.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Khan SUM, Al-Shahry M, Ingler WB Jr. Efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2. Science 2002;297(5590):2243–2245.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yamashiki Y, Onda Y, Smith HG, Blake WH, Wakahara T, Igarashi Y et al. Initial flux of sediment-associated radiocesium to the ocean from the largest river impacted by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Sci. Rep. 2014;4:3714.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mack I. Energy Trading and Risk Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Tiryakioğlu M, Campbell J, Byczynski G, eds. Shape Casting: 5th International Symposium 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gecow A. Emergence of Chaos and Complexity During System Growth. In: Aziz-Alaoui MA, Bertelle C, eds. From System Complexity to Emergent Properties. Understanding Complex Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009:115–154.

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]

Carpineti A. What’s The Chance Of Life On Pluto? IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-s-the-chance-of-life-on-pluto/. 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. ADP Acquisitions: SSA Should Limit ADP Procurements Until Further Testing Is Performed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dimick E. A Comparative Study on Pheromone Communication between Schizophyllum species. 2015.

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. The Justices Have Cellphones, Too. New York Times. June 25, 2014:A27.

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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