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

Peckham, M., 2009. Journal club. A cell biologist ponders an outstanding mystery in muscle formation. Nature 458, 1081.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, R.B., Atkins, J.F., 2011. Molecular biology. Translation goes global. Science 334, 1509–1510.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen, S.B., Tao, X., MacKinnon, R., 2011. Structural basis of PIP2 activation of the classical inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2. Nature 477, 495–498.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sliter, D.A., Martinez, J., Hao, L., Chen, X., Sun, N., Fischer, T.D., Burman, J.L., Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Narendra, D.P., Cai, H., Borsche, M., Klein, C., Youle, R.J., 2018. Parkin and PINK1 mitigate STING-induced inflammation. Nature 561, 258–262.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corsi, P., Dulieu, M., 2013. The Marketing of Technology Intensive Products and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bässler, H.-J., 2013. Containment Technology: Progress in the Pharmaceutical and Food Processing Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Campbell, H.E.A.E., Wehlau, D.L., 2011. Examples, in: Wehlau, D.L. (Ed.), Modular Invariant Theory, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–81.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. The 10 Stuff-Ups We All Make When Interpreting Research [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/10-stuff-ups-we-all-make-when-interpreting-research/ (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, 2007. Motor Carrier Safety: Preliminary Information on Challenges to Ensuring the Integrity of Drug Testing Programs (No. GAO-08-220T). 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

Garcia, A.D., 2013. Long-term shifts in adolescent Nicotine reward following early methylphenidate exposure in male and female rats (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. Putting the Pan in Pan-American. New York Times 14LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Peckham, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Peckham, 2009; Weiss and Atkins, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Weiss and Atkins, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Sliter et al., 2018)

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