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

Rishbeth H. High above the Earth. Nature 2002; 418: 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

VijayRaghavan K, Bate M. Retrospective. Veronica Rodrigues (1953-2010). Science 2010; 330: 1493.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aubert J, Finlay CC, Fournier A. Bottom-up control of geomagnetic secular variation by the Earth’s inner core. Nature 2013; 502: 219–223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kohane IS, Mandl KD, Taylor PL, Holm IA, Nigrin DJ, Kunkel LM. Medicine. Reestablishing the researcher-patient compact. Science 2007; 316: 836–837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM. The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

Inoue M, Levy M, Baryshev AV (eds.). Magnetophotonics: From Theory to Applications. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz DD, Axelrad ME. The Importance of Development: Early and Middle Childhood. In: Axelrad ME (ed). Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015, pp 63–69.

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

Davis J. The UK Government Just Got Rid Of Its Climate Department. IFLScience. 2016.https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-uk-government-just-got-rid-of-its-climate-department/ (accessed 30 Oct2018).

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Better Data Needed to Rate the Nation’s Highway Conditions. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Steffan AL. An examination of the correlation between ninth grade mathematics grades and student performance on the mathematics portion of the California high school exit examination. 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

Leland J. Glimpses of Vanishing Harlem. New York Times. 2017; : MB7.

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

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