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

Richman, D. D. HIV Chemotherapy. Nature 2001, 410, 995–1001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Halloran, M. E.; Longini, I. M., Jr. Public Health. Community Studies for Vaccinating Schoolchildren against Influenza. Science 2006, 311, 615–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kikushima, K.; Kita, S.; Higuchi, H. A Non-Invasive Imaging for the in Vivo Tracking of High-Speed Vesicle Transport in Mouse Neutrophils. Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1913.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Williams, S. E. J.; Wootton, P.; Mason, H. S.; et al. Hemoxygenase-2 Is an Oxygen Sensor for a Calcium-Sensitive Potassium Channel. Science 2004, 306, 2093–2097.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Krishnan, V. Probability and Random Processes; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2006.

An edited book

Brasseur, G. P. Aeronomy of the Middle Atmosphere: Chemistry and Physics of the Stratosphere and Mesosphere; Solomon, S., Ed.; Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library; Third revised and enlarged edition.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005; Vol. 32.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Areqi, S.; Hudaib, A.; Obeid, N. Improving Availability in Distributed Component-Based Systems via Replication. In New Challenges for Intelligent Information and Database Systems; Nguyen, N. T.; Trawiński, B.; Jung, J. J., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; pp. 43–52.

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

Andrew, E. Mediterranean Diet May Slow Down Age-Associated Cognitive Decline (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. Early Childhood Programs: Many Poor Children and Strained Resources Challenge Head Start; HEHS-94-169BR; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boudreau, M.-L. Chanter En Français En Louisiane: Du Passé Vers Le Futur. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 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

Fiske, I. H. ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. New York Times, 1907, SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR233.

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