How to format your references using the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 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

Thompson JN. Evolution. The role of coevolution. Science. 2012;335:410–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiøtz J, Jacobsen KW. A maximum in the strength of nanocrystalline copper. Science. 2003;301:1357–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen F, Tillberg PW, Boyden ES. Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy. Science. 2015;347:543–8.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tan CSH, Pasculescu A, Lim WA, Pawson T, Bader GD, Linding R. Positive selection of tyrosine loss in metazoan evolution. Science. 2009;325:1686–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Piegorsch WW, Bailer AJ. Analyzing Environmental Data. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; Oct 31, 2005.

An edited book

Jepson W, Millington A, editors. Land Change Science in the Tropics: Changing Agricultural Landscapes. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2008. XVIII, 274 p. 50 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagayoshi S. A Case Study on Enterprise Transformation in a Medium-Size Japanese IT Service Provider: Business Process Change from the Ontological Perspective. In: Proper HA, Aveiro D, Gaaloul K editors. Advances in Enterprise Engineering VII: Third Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2013, Luxembourg, May 13-14, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

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 Biomedical Materials Research Part A.

Blog post

Andrew D. Neonicotinoids Linked To Wild Bee And Butterfly Declines In Europe And US [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/neonicotinoids-linked-to-wild-bee-and-butterfly-declines-in-europe-and-us/

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. ADP Budget: Department of the Army’s Information Technology Systems Obligations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 May. Report No.: IMTEC-89-47FS.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ibarra AL. Novice Clinicians and the Experience of Transcendence in Clinical Training and Supervision [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

Vecsey G. In the End, Conduct Is What Counts. New York Times. 2010;

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Biomedical Materials Research Part A
Abbreviation	J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A
ISSN (print)	1549-3296
ISSN (online)	1552-4965
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials Ceramics and Composites Metals and Alloys