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. Schiermeier Q. Europe told to unite on spy satellites. Nature 2003; 422:361.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kim E and Chan MHW. Probable observation of a supersolid helium phase. Nature 2004; 427:225–227.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chandra FA, Buzi G, and Doyle JC. Glycolytic oscillations and limits on robust efficiency. Science 2011; 333:187–192.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wu C, Miloslavskaya I, Demontis S, Maestro R, and Galaktionov K. Regulation of cellular response to oncogenic and oxidative stress by Seladin-1. Nature 2004; 432:640–645.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Maré J-C. Aerospace Actuators 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Borangiu T, Thomas A, and Trentesaux D, editors. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. (Studies in Computational Intelligence; vol. 472).

A chapter in an edited book

1. Caputo JS. Peacebuilding through Dialogue in Northern Ireland. In: Roy S and Shaw IS, editors. Communicating Differences: Culture, Media, Peace and Conflict Negotiation. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016; 54–67.

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. Andrew E. After Kepler, What Is Next For The Planet Hunters? IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015; [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: URL: https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-kepler-what-next-planet-hunters/

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. Space Funding: NASA’s Appropriations and DOD’s Funding Estimates for Space Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Feb. Report No.: NSIAD-87-81FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pradhan SH. User Interface Design, Database Connectivity, and Security in Fortified Cards [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. STEVEN LEE MYERS; C.J. Chivers contributed reporting from Beslan for this article and Melikhovo SKF. PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA FACES FULL ‘WAR’ TO DIVIDE NATION. New York Times. 2004; 11.

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
Scope

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