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

Abbott A. Science in culture: Visual zoology. Historical wall charts found in Pavia. Nature. 2003;421:580.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanders RW, Moore JP. HIV: A stamp on the envelope. Nature. 2014;514:437–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiao S, Zhou C, Yuan X. Palaeontology: undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos. Nature. 2007;446:E9-10; discussion E10-1.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang H, Wang L, Erdjument-Bromage H, Vidal M, Tempst P, Jones RS, Zhang Y. Role of histone H2A ubiquitination in Polycomb silencing. Nature. 2004;431:873–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer RL. Safety and Health for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Nov 4, 2005.

An edited book

Rostami A. Terahertz Technology: Fundamentals and Applications. Rasooli H, Baghban H editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XIV, 246 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Mathur VK, Crawford J. Fundamentals of Gas Diffusion Layers in PEM Fuel Cells. In: Basu S editor. Recent Trends in Fuel Cell Science and Technology. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

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

Luntz S. Tiny Tarsier Subspecies Discovered [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tiny-tarsier-subspecies-discovered/

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. Information Security: Coordination of Federal Cyber Security Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Sep. Report No.: GAO-06-811.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Burnias MP. A qualitative study of familial factors that contribute to a positive coming out process [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2014.

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

Brantley B. The Fine Art of Using Love as a Weapon. New York Times. 2016;

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