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

Blumberg, B.S., 2008. Obituary: Joshua Lederberg (1925-2008). Nature 452, 422.

A journal article with 2 authors

Swirski, F.K., Nahrendorf, M., 2013. Leukocyte behavior in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and heart failure. Science 339, 161–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Newell, R.G., Pizer, W.A., Raimi, D., 2014. Environmental economics. Carbon market lessons and global policy outlook. Science 343, 1316–1317.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pelling, A.E., Sehati, S., Gralla, E.B., Valentine, J.S., Gimzewski, J.K., 2004. Local nanomechanical motion of the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science 305, 1147–1150.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ben Chouikha, M., 2016. Organizational Design for Knowledge Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yuen, B., Yeh, A.G.O. (Eds.), 2011. High-Rise Living in Asian Cities. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirsch, R., Hodkinson, I., 2013. Completions and Complete Representations, in: Andréka, H., Ferenczi, M., Németi, I. (Eds.), Cylindric-like Algebras and Algebraic Logic, Bolyai Society Mathematical Studies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–89.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Clouds Hide The Water On Hot Exoplanets [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Aviation Safety: FAA Has An Opportunity to Enhance Safety and Improve Oversight of Initial Pilot Training (No. GAO-12-537T). 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

Bergh, P.A., 2009. Reconfiguring academic priorities: Through the eyes of Michigan community college Chief Academic Officers (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

MacFARQUHAR, N., 2017. A Developer and Kremlin Fixer With a Web of Trump Contacts. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blumberg, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Blumberg, 2008; Swirski and Nahrendorf, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Swirski and Nahrendorf, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Pelling 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