How to format your references using the JAK-STAT citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JAK-STAT. 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	Download the output style file
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

Shaw RJ. Cell biology. GATORs take a bite out of mTOR. Science 2013; 340:1056–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fier PS, Hartwig JF. Selective C-H fluorination of pyridines and diazines inspired by a classic amination reaction. Science 2013; 342:956–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

Templeton CN, Greene E, Davis K. Allometry of alarm calls: black-capped chickadees encode information about predator size. Science 2005; 308:1934–7.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dahan M, Lévi S, Luccardini C, Rostaing P, Riveau B, Triller A. Diffusion dynamics of glycine receptors revealed by single-quantum dot tracking. Science 2003; 302:442–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abraham A. The Trend Following Bible. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Poel I, Goldberg D, editors. Philosophy and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Scholz F, Kakiuchi T. Salt Bridges and Diaphragms. In: Inzelt G, Lewenstam A, Scholz F, editors. Handbook of Reference Electrodes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. page 49–76.

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 JAK-STAT.

Blog post

Davis J. France To Ban Breeding Of Captive Orcas And Dolphins [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/france-to-ban-breeding-of-captive-orcas-and-dolphins/

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. Medicaid: Questionable Practices Boost Federal Payments for School-Based Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bennett AL. An Empirical Longitudinal Analysis of Agile Methodologies and Firm Financial Performance. 2019;

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

Kishkovsky S. Church Hints It May Serve As Mediator In Russia. New York Times2012; :A10.

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	JAK-STAT
Abbreviation	JAKSTAT
ISSN (online)	2162-3996
Scope