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

Schnorr, S.L., 2015. The diverse microbiome of the hunter-gatherer. Nature 518, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Conner, S.D., Schmid, S.L., 2003. Regulated portals of entry into the cell. Nature 422, 37–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tao, C., Cullen, W.G., Williams, E.D., 2010. Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science 328, 736–740.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Novelle, M.G., Vázquez, M.J., Martinello, K.D., Sanchez-Garrido, M.A., Tena-Sempere, M., Diéguez, C., 2014. Neonatal events, such as androgenization and postnatal overfeeding, modify the response to ghrelin. Sci. Rep. 4, 4855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lev, B., Gu, F., 2016. The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Amaldi, A., Tang, F. (Eds.), 2014. Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Thermoelectrics: ECT 2013. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Park, J.H., Choi, K.Y., Hwang, J.Y., Lee, D.H., 2007. Certificateless Public Key Encryption in the Selective-ID Security Model (Without Random Oracles), in: Takagi, T., Okamoto, T., Okamoto, E., Okamoto, Takeshi (Eds.), Pairing-Based Cryptography – Pairing 2007: First International Conference, Tokyo, Japan, July 2-4, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 60–82.

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., 2015. Researchers Grow A Breast In A Petri Dish [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mini-breasts-grown-petri-dishes/ (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, 1991. Financial Management: Actions Needed to Ensure Effective Implementation of NASA’s Accounting System (No. AFMD-91-74). 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

BenVau, L., 2014. Effects of larval Nosema ceranae infection on adult honey bee (Apis mellifera) morphology and physiology (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, 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

Kelly, D., 1994. Some Bad Role Models. New York Times 718.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schnorr, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Conner and Schmid, 2003; Schnorr, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Conner and Schmid, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Novelle et al., 2014)

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

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