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

Ricci-Tersenghi F. Mathematics. Being glassy without being hard to solve. Science. 2010;330:1639–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hespos SJ, Spelke ES. Conceptual precursors to language. Nature. 2004;430:453–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao J, Murray S, Lipuma JJ. Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4345.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Steinmetz PN, Roy A, Fitzgerald PJ, Hsiao SS, Johnson KO, Niebur E. Attention modulates synchronized neuronal firing in primate somatosensory cortex. Nature. 2000;404:187–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kushner R, Lawrence V, Kumar S. Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons; May 20, 2013.

An edited book

Vidal R. Generalized Principal Component Analysis. Ma Y, Sastry SS editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2016. XXXII, 566 p. 121 illus., 83 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu C, Fang Z, Li J. Practices, Experience and Policy Orientation for Free Education in Normal Universities in China. In: Zhu X, Zeichner K editors. Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century. 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

Hale T. How To Check If You’ve Been Hacked Within Seconds [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-check-if-youve-been-hacked-within-seconds/

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. Social Security Administration: Responses to Subcommittee Questions About the On-line PEBES Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jun. Report No.: AIMD-97-121R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Layer BD. Structured plasma waveguides and deep EUV generation enabled by intense laser-cluster interactions [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2012.

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

Saslow L. Filling the Child Care Breach. New York Times. 2008;

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