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. Rutter J. Essay: Amersham Biosciences and Science Prize. PAS domains and metabolic status signaling. Science. 2002;298:1567–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhu M, Yu X. A primitive fish close to the common ancestor of tetrapods and lungfish. Nature. 2002;418:767–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ho VM, Lee J-A, Martin KC. The cell biology of synaptic plasticity. Science. 2011;334:623–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu D, Zhang Y, Wen J, Chen Z, Wei D, Hu X, et al. Diffraction interference induced superfocusing in nonlinear Talbot effect. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6134.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Akcoglu MA, Bartha PFA, Ha DM. Analysis in Vector Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

1. Arena P, editor. Dynamical Systems, Wave-Based Computation and Neuro-Inspired Robots. Vienna: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Benson DJ, Iyengar S, Krause H. Thursday. In: Iyengar S, Krause H, editors. Representations of Finite Groups: Local Cohomology and Support. Basel: Springer; 2012. p. 63–78.

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. Andrew E. Polar bear cub at Toronto Zoo takes his first steps [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/polar-bear-cub-toronto-zoo-takes-his-first-steps/

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. Data Processing: USDA Needs To Better Manage Field-Office Computer Purchases. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Feb. Report No.: IMTEC-87-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Wang E. Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Investigation of the Coyote Mountain Shear Zone [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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. Wilford JN. Intertwined Circles of Faith. New York Times. 2016 Nov 7;D6.

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
Scope