How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Biomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Biomedicine. 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

Axtell, R.L., 2001. Zipf distribution of U.S. firm sizes. Science 293, 1818–1820.

A journal article with 2 authors

McGuire, J.A., Shen, Y.R., 2006. Ultrafast vibrational dynamics at water interfaces. Science 313, 1945–1948.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, D., Zhang, P., Yan, J., 2014. Ab initio molecular dynamics study of high-pressure melting of beryllium oxide. Sci. Rep. 4, 4707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McCulloch, S.D., Kokoska, R.J., Masutani, C., Iwai, S., Hanaoka, F., Kunkel, T.A., 2004. Preferential cis-syn thymine dimer bypass by DNA polymerase eta occurs with biased fidelity. Nature 428, 97–100.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer, J.-M., 2016. Transformation of Collective Intelligences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lum, C.-H., 2016. Teaching Living Legends: Professional Development and Lessons for the 21st Century Music Educator, SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarachik, M.P., 2014. Magnetic Avalanches in Molecular Magnets, in: Bartolomé, J., Luis, F., Fernández, J.F. (Eds.), Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications, NanoScience and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 113–127.

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 Journal of Applied Biomedicine.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. How Do Parasitic Birds Learn To Be Like Their Biological Parents? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-birds-learn-be-birds/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Review of NASA’s Solicitation for the Leasing of Office Space in the Houston, Texas, Area (No. LCD-78-325). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coyle, M., 2017. Pre-Service School Counselor’s Perception of Professional Identity Development During Internship (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Pilon, M., 2014. Hands Speak Louder Than Words. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Axtell, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Axtell, 2001; McGuire and Shen, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (McGuire and Shen, 2006)
Three or more authors: (McCulloch et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Biomedicine
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Biomed.
ISSN (print)	1214-021X
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine General Neuroscience General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics