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. Covington WW. Helping western forests heal. Nature. 2000;408:135–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nesbit J, Norman C. 2010 Visualization Challenge. Science. 2011;331:847–56.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Simon P, Gogotsi Y, Dunn B. Materials science. Where do batteries end and supercapacitors begin? Science. 2014;343:1210–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pérez-Brocal V, Gil R, Ramos S, Lamelas A, Postigo M, Michelena JM, et al. A small microbial genome: the end of a long symbiotic relationship? Science. 2006;314:312–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. McPhee P. A Companion to the French Revolution. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Guy TV, Karny M, Wolpert D, editors. Decision Making and Imperfection. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Aronoff CE, McClure SL, Ward JL. Developing Effective Successors. In: McClure SL, Ward JL, editors. Family Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2011. p. 33–50.

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. Curiosity Snaps A Blue Sunset On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Procurement Equipment for New York Postal Data Center. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974 Jul. Report No.: B-180235.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Reich JC. An iterative feature perturbation method for gene selection from microarray data [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2010.

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. Gardiner K. Sing, Memory. New York Times. 2016 Feb 21;BR10.

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