How to format your references using the IBMS BoneKEy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IBMS BoneKEy. 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

Dijkstra JM. TH2 and Treg candidate genes in elephant shark. Nature 2014; 511: E7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costello EK, Relman DA. Population health: immaturity in the gut microbial community. Nature 2014; 510: 344–345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiang C, Chan C-K, Wang J. Proposal and numerical study of ultra-compact active hybrid plasmonic resonator for sub-wavelength lasing applications. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 3720.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Goswami BN, Venugopal V, Sengupta D, Madhusoodanan MS, Xavier PK. Increasing trend of extreme rain events over India in a warming environment. Science 2006; 314: 1442–1445.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kracke E-A, Lodde K. Leitfaden Straßenbrücken. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2011.

An edited book

Ellmer K, Klein A, Rech B (eds.). Transparent Conductive Zinc Oxide: Basics and Applications in Thin Film Solar Cells. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Ball M. The ‘Prison of Love’ and Its Queer Discontents: On the Value of Paranoid and Reparative Readings in Queer Criminological Scholarship. In: Dwyer A, Ball M, Crofts T (eds). Queering Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016, pp 54–79.

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 IBMS BoneKEy.

Blog post

Fang J. Are Animals Getting Smaller and Smaller with Rising Temperatures? IFLScience. 2015.

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

Government Accountability Office. Comments on Report Entitled ‘The Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction’. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Powers DL. Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind on classroom instruction: A cross case analysis applying Dewey’s theory of instructional methods. 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

Barron J. Roaming the Woods, Imagining Gunfire on a Cold War Base. New York Times. 2017; : A21.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	IBMS BoneKEy
Abbreviation	IBMS BoneKEy
ISSN (online)	1940-8692
Scope