How to format your references using the Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (IJBMS). 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. Broer DJ. Applied physics: A new view on displays. Nature 2014; 511:159–160.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Thompson JN and Cunningham BM. Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection. Nature 2002; 417:735–738.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Richards-Dinger K, Stein RS, and Toda S. Decay of aftershock density with distance does not indicate triggering by dynamic stress. Nature 2010; 467:583–586.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Xu X-D, Cheng H, Chen W-H, Cheng S-X, Zhuo R-X, and Zhang X-Z. In situ recognition of cell-surface glycans and targeted imaging of cancer cells. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Simon L. Control of Biological and Drug-Delivery Systems for Chemical, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Jarnicki M. Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Functions: The Monsters of Analysis. 1st ed. 2015. Pflug P, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. (Springer Monographs in Mathematics).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Tichý* J, Erhart J, Kittinger* E, and Přívratská J. Piezoelectric Properties. In: Erhart J, Kittinger E, and Přívratská J, editors. Fundamentals of Piezoelectric Sensorics: Mechanical, Dielectric, and Thermodynamical Properties of Piezoelectric Materials. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010; 69–100.

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 Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Cassini Snaps Sublime Close-Up Images Of Saturn’s North Pole. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016; [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-snaps-sublime-closeup-images-of-saturns-north-pole/

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. Transportation-Disadvantaged Populations: Federal Coordination Efforts Could Be Further Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Jun. Report No.: GAO-12-647.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Long KE. Voluntary exiles: Short-term Western expatriates in three Chinese cities [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Rao PS. Ruling on E.U. Trade Deals Retains a Hurdle for Brexit Negotiations. New York Times. 2017; B2.

In-text citations

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

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	Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences
ISSN (print)	2008-3866
ISSN (online)	2008-3874
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