How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular Screening citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomolecular Screening (JBS). 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

Lewis, R. S. The Molecular Choreography of a Store-Operated Calcium Channel. Nature 2007, 446, 284–287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen, K.; Murray, F. Intellectual Property. Enhanced: Intellectual Property Landscape of the Human Genome. Science 2005, 310, 239–240.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merritt, J. M.; Bondybey, V. E.; Heaven, M. C. Beryllium Dimer--Caught in the Act of Bonding. Science 2009, 324, 1548–1551.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bai, L.-P.; Hagihara, M.; Nakatani, K.; et al. Recognition of Chelerythrine to Human Telomeric DNA and RNA G-Quadruplexes. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pelz, G. Mechatronic Systems; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

Provable Security: 10th International Conference, ProvSec 2016, Nanjing, China, November 10-11, 2016, Proceedings; Chen, L.; Han, J., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 10005.

A chapter in an edited book

Gusak, D.; Kukush, A.; Kulik, A.; et al. Stochastic Processes with Independent Increments. Wiener and Poisson Processes. Poisson Point Measures. In Theory of Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Financial Mathematics and Risk Theory; Kukush, A.; Kulik, A.; Mishura, Y.; et al., Eds.; Problem Books in Mathematics; Springer: New York, NY, 2010; pp. 43–58.

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 Biomolecular Screening.

Blog post

Andrews, R. Ancient Supermassive Black Hole Ejects Major Flare https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-supermassive-black-hole-ejects-major-flare/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

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. Digital Television Transition: Preliminary Information on Initial Consumer Education Efforts; GAO-07-1248T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Minick, V. Educators’ Beliefs About and Approaches to the Evaluation of Student Writing. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 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

Williams, J. Top of the Class. New York Times, 2016, BR6.

In-text citations

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

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 Biomolecular Screening
ISSN (print)	1087-0571
ISSN (online)	1552-454X
Scope