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

Maxmen A. Three technologies that changed genetics. Nature 2015; 528:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sepúlveda J, Murray C. The state of global health in 2014. Science 2014; 345:1275–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dai L, Korolev KS, Gore J. Slower recovery in space before collapse of connected populations. Nature 2013; 496:355–8.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hou ST, Jiang SX, Aylsworth A, Cooke M, Zhou L. Collapsin response mediator protein 3 deacetylates histone H4 to mediate nuclear condensation and neuronal death. Sci Rep 2013; 3:1350.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry J-F, Brinzei N, Mazouni M-H. Systems Dependability Assessment. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Bjøntegaard Ø. RILEM Technical Committee 195-DTD Recommendation for Test Methods for AD and TD of Early Age Concrete: Round Robin Documentation Report: Program, Test Results and Statistical Evaluation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Ritter FE, Schoelles MJ, Quigley KS, Klein LC. Determining the Number of Simulation Runs: Treating Simulations as Theories by Not Sampling Their Behavior. In: Rothrock L, Narayanan S, editors. Human-in-the-Loop Simulations: Methods and Practice. London: Springer; 2011. page 97–116.

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. First Meteor Shower Of The Year Peaks This Weekend [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/quadrantid-meteor-shower-peaks-weekend/

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. Establishing a Proper Fee Schedule Under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ziv A. Dynamics in interactions with digital technology: A depth psychological/theoretical exploration of the evolutionary-biological, symbolic, and emotional psyche in the digital age. 2014;

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

Billard M. From India, Bridal Baubles. New York Times2010; :E5.

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