How to format your references using the Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki. 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 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

1. Patek SN. Materials science. Biomimetics and evolution. Science. 2014;345:1448–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Meyer JR, Kassen R. The effects of competition and predation on diversification in a model adaptive radiation. Nature. 2007;446:432–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gustafson JL, Lim D, Miller SJ. Dynamic kinetic resolution of biaryl atropisomers via peptide-catalyzed asymmetric bromination. Science. 2010;328:1251–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hansen TW, Wagner JB, Hansen PL, Dahl S, Topsøe H, Jacobsen CJ. Atomic-resolution in situ transmission electron microscopy of a promoter of a heterogeneous catalyst. Science. 2001;294:1508–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goossens F. How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Spotts HE, editor. Creating and Delivering Value in Marketing: Proceedings of the 2003 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mohr D, Zachmann G. Silhouette Area Based Similarity Measure for Template Matching in Constant Time. In: Perales FJ, Fisher RB, editors. Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects: 6th International Conference, AMDO 2010, Port d’Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, July 7-9, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 43–54.

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 Biological Research-Thessaloniki.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Dramatic Photographs Of Hawaii’s Rising Lava Lake Levels [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dramatic-photographs-of-hawaiis-rising-lava-lake-levels/

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. Telecommunications: Many Broadcasters Will Not Meet May 2002 Digital Television Deadline. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002 Apr. Report No.: GAO-02-466.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Gamez TE. Preventing child maltreatment among children with non-resident fathers: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Pear R, Kelly K. Trump Concedes Health Overhaul Is a Thorny Task. New York Times. 2017 Feb 28;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki
Abbreviation	J. Biol. Res. (Thessalon.)
ISSN (online)	2241-5793
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