How to format your references using the JCI Insight citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for JCI Insight. 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. Autor DH. Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent.” Science. 2014;344(6186):843–851.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ferreira PG, Starkman GD. Einstein’s theory of gravity and the problem of missing mass. Science. 2009;326(5954):812–815.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Fukuda H, Murase H, Tokuda IT. Controlling circadian rhythms by dark-pulse perturbations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1533.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Okamura-Oho Y, et al. Broad integration of expression maps and co-expression networks compassing novel gene functions in the brain. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6969.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robyns B, et al. Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Antunes L, Takadama K, eds. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation VII: International Workshop, MABS 2006, Hakodate, Japan, May 8, 2006, Revised and Invited Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Sani L, et al. Efficient Search of Relevant Structures in Complex Systems. In: Adorni G, et al., eds. AI*IA 2016 Advances in Artificial Intelligence: XVth International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Genova, Italy, November 29 – December 1, 2016, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:35–48.

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 JCI Insight.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Rare Species Of Deep-Diving Whale Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-species-deep-diving-whale-discovered/. Accessed October 30, 2018.

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. Learning Disabilities: The Link to Delinquency Should Be Determined, but Schools Should Do More Now. 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

1. Richardson C. Edgard Varèse and the Visual Avant-Garde: A Comparative Study of Intégrales and Works of Art by Marcel Duchamp. 2005.

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. Hollander S. MORE 65-M.P.H. ZONES. New York Times. 2001;14NJ6.

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	JCI Insight
ISSN (online)	2379-3708
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