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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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Livio M. Astronomy: Hubble’s legacy. Nature 2015; 520:287–9.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Lee MCS, Schekman R. Cell biology. BAR domains go on a bender. Science 2004; 303:479–80.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Betrouche M, Maamache M, Choi JR. Novel characteristics of energy spectrum for 3D Dirac oscillator analyzed via Lorentz covariant deformed algebra. Sci Rep 2013; 3:3221.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
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Oulton RF, Sorger VJ, Zentgraf T, Ma R-M, Gladden C, Dai L, Bartal G, Zhang X. Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale. Nature 2009; 461:629–32.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Smith V. Toni Morrison. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.
An edited book
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Love PB, Kundu RV, editors. Clinical Cases in Skin of Color: Adnexal, Inflammation, Infections, and Pigmentary Disorders. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
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Srinivasan V, Mohamed M, Kato H. Melatonin: Its Microbicidal Properties and Clinical Applications. In: Srinivasan V, Brzezinski A, Oter S, Shillcutt SD, editors. Melatonin and Melatonergic Drugs in Clinical Practice. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014. page 57–69.

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
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O`Callaghan J. Watch Live As Juno Enters Orbit Around Jupiter Tonight [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-juno-enters-orbit-around-jupiter/

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
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Government Accountability Office. GAO Request for Additional SES Positions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1984.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Navarro C. Advocacy services for high-risk Latino families caring for children with autism: A grant proposal. 2012;

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
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Alcindor Y. Trump Rallies White Crowd in Wisconsin for the Police. New York Times2016; :A9.

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 titleJAK-STAT
AbbreviationJAKSTAT
ISSN (online)2162-3996
Scope

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