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. Crooks RM. Therapeutics: Detective work on drug dosage. Nature. 2014;505:165–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Čorić I, List B. Asymmetric spiroacetalization catalysed by confined Brønsted acids. Nature. 2012;483:315–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Olsen A, Vantipalli MC, Lithgow GJ. Checkpoint proteins control survival of the postmitotic cells in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. 2006;312:1381–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ioffe LB, Feigel’man MV, Ioselevich A, Ivanov D, Troyer M, Blatter G. Topologically protected quantum bits using Josephson junction arrays. Nature. 2002;415:503–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stidwill D, Fletcher R. Normal Binocular Vision. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Johnston RJ, Rolfe J, Rosenberger RS, Brouwer R, editors. Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ueno S, Adachi F, Komatani K, Kawahara T, Okuno HG. Bus Information System Based on User Models and Dynamic Generation of VoiceXML Scripts. In: Sakurai A, Hasida K, Nitta K, editors. New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence: JSAI 2003 and JSAI 2004 Conferences and Workshops, Niigata, Japan, June 23-27, 2003 and Kanazawa, Japan, May 31 - June 4, 2004, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 46–60.

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. Luntz S. Advances In Tackling Depression [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/advances-tackling-depression/

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. Public Education: Issues Involving Single-Gender Schools and Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: HEHS-96-122.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bagley CR. Pint-sized spectacles: American youth beauty queens and the power(ful) dynamic of the institutionalized pageant [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2010.

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. Williams J. Found in Translation. New York Times. 2016 Aug 28;BR6.

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)