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. Ferry DK. Applied physics. Ohm’s law in a quantum world. Science. 2012;335:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chen W-P, Yang Z. Earthquakes beneath the Himalayas and Tibet: evidence for strong lithospheric mantle. Science. 2004;304:1949–52.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yu Y-TN, Yuan X, Velicer GJ. Adaptive evolution of an sRNA that controls Myxococcus development. Science. 2010;328:993.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Organ CL, Schweitzer MH, Zheng W, Freimark LM, Cantley LC, Asara JM. Molecular phylogenetics of mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex. Science. 2008;320:499.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Grant G. The Water Sensitive City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Shen B. Modelling Rock Fracturing Processes: A Fracture Mechanics Approach Using FRACOD. Stephansson O, Rinne M, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jou JYH, Fu LF, Lin AY. The Ethical Decision Making of Marketing Professionals in Taiwan. In: Chebat J-C, Oumlil AB, editors. Proceedings of the 1998 Multicultural Marketing Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 24–9.

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. O`Callaghan J. We Just Learned A Lot Of Unexpected Things About Jupiter [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-just-learned-a-lot-of-unexpected-things-about-jupiter/

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. Teacher Corps Programs Operated by the Buffalo State University College, the New York University, and the Harlem Institute for Teachers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Nov. Report No.: 089472.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Darwich MK. Cost-Efficient Video On Demand (VOD) Streaming Using Cloud Services [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. Walsh MW. Treasury Official Urges Congress to Act Quickly on Puerto Rico. New York Times. 2016 Apr 14;B3.

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

Research and Writing Guides