How to format your references using the Journal of Biomedical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomedical Science. 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	Download the output style file
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. Strogatz SH. Exploring complex networks. Nature. 2001;410:268–76.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kleinberg J, Lawrence S. Network analysis. The structure of the Web. Science. 2001;294:1849–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gebauer D, Völkel A, Cölfen H. Stable prenucleation calcium carbonate clusters. Science. 2008;322:1819–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Rempel AW, Waddington ED, Wettlaufer JS, Worster MG. Possible displacement of the climate signal in ancient ice by premelting and anomalous diffusion. Nature. 2001;411:568–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Jackson J. Political Oratory and Cartooning. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Huck WTS, editor. Nanoscale Assembly: Chemical Techniques. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jalabert A, Amara A, Clermidy F. Modeling of the Molecular Nwfet Transistor. In: Amara A, Clermidy F, editors. Molecular Electronics Materials, Devices and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 99–112.

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 Science.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Chinese Environmental Officials Arrested For Faking Air Pollution Results [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/chinese-environmental-officials-arrested-for-faking-air-pollution-results/

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. Aviation Safety: Enhanced Requirements Can Improve Commuter Pilot Training. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Sep. Report No.: RCED-88-218.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Vas LT. Orbis pictus: Intermedialität zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei und literarischer Stadterfahrung dargestellt anhand der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann und Wilhelm Raabe [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2008.

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. Kelly M. CLINTON’S ECONOMIC PLAN: The Campaign; Gambling That a Tax-Cut Promise Was Not Taken Seriously. New York Times. 1993 Feb 18;A16.

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 Biomedical Science
Abbreviation	J. Biomed. Sci.
ISSN (online)	1423-0127
Scope	Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology General Medicine Biochemistry, medical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Pharmacology (medical)