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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Yin Q-Z. Planetary science. Predicting the Sun’s oxygen isotope composition. Science. 2004;305(5691):1729–1730.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jia T, Pósfai M. Connecting core percolation and controllability of complex networks. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5379.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yoshimura K, Onda Y, Fukushima T. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Aillaud C, et al. Vasohibins/SVBP are tubulin carboxypeptidases (TCPs) that regulate neuron differentiation. Science. 2017;358(6369):1448–1453.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Reinke P. Inorganic Nanostructures. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

1. Bunke H, Kandel A, Last M, eds. Applied Pattern Recognition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ferrario B. Uniqueness and Absolute Continuity for Semilinear SPDE’s. In: Dalang RC, Dozzi M, Russo F, eds. Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. Basel: Springer; 2013:85–94.

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. WHO Prepares For Ebola Outbreak to Reach 20,000 In Nine Months [Internet]. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-prepares-ebola-outbreak-reach-20000-nine-months/. 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. Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Brown VA. Silenced Voices That Cry in the Night: The Transformative Experience of Spouses of Wounded Warriors - Is it Transformative Learning? A Phenomenological Study. 2015.

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. Brantley B. Dissecting the Pain of Fame. New York Times. 2017;C1.

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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