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

Brouns SJJ. Molecular biology. A Swiss army knife of immunity. Science 2012; 337:808–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jaeger J-J, Marivaux L. Paleontology. Shaking the earliest branches of anthropoid primate evolution. Science 2005; 310:244–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan S, Huse DA, White SR. Spin-liquid ground state of the S = 1/2 kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. Science 2011; 332:1173–6.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fulde M, Sommer F, Chassaing B, van Vorst K, Dupont A, Hensel M, Basic M, Klopfleisch R, Rosenstiel P, Bleich A, et al. Publisher Correction: Neonatal selection by Toll-like receptor 5 influences long-term gut microbiota composition. Nature 2018; 563:E25.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gaynor GH. Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Giovannini M, Maffeis C, Molinari E, Scaglioni S, editors. Salute & equilibrio nutrizionale. Milano: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Weirich S, Casinghino C. Generic Programming with Dependent Types. In: Gibbons J, editor. Generic and Indexed Programming: International Spring School, SSGIP 2010, Oxford, UK, March 22-26, 2010, Revised Lectures. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 217–58.

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

Andrew E. Sperm Whales Learn Local Dialects – New Study Is Yet More Proof That Animals Have Culture [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sperm-whales-learn-local-dialects-new-study-yet-more-proof-animals-have-culture/

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. Social Security Administration: Effective Information Technology Management Essential for Data Center Initiative. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Swartz H. The Multitude Speaks in Style: An Analysis of Vernacular Agency through Images of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 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

Barron J. Son of Sam Detective Realized ‘This Has Got to Be the Guy.’ New York Times2017; :A17.

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