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

Wofsy, S. C. Climate Change. Where Has All the Carbon Gone? Science 2001, 292, 2261–2263.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rajsbaum, R.; García-Sastre, A. Virology. Unanchored Ubiquitin in Virus Uncoating. Science 2014, 346, 427–428.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cusick, R. D.; Kim, Y.; Logan, B. E. Energy Capture from Thermolytic Solutions in Microbial Reverse-Electrodialysis Cells. Science 2012, 335, 1474–1477.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fike, D. A.; Grotzinger, J. P.; Pratt, L. M.; et al. Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean. Nature 2006, 444, 744–747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S.; Bramham, J. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Kant and Social Policies; Faggion, A.; Pinzani, A.; Sanchez Madrid, N., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Masri, R.; Keller, A. Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury. In Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord; Jandial, R.; Chen, M. Y., Eds.; Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2012; pp. 74–88.

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

Davis, J. People Living Near Busy Roads Found To Have Higher Rates Of Dementia https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/people-living-near-busy-roads-found-to-have-higher-rates-of-dementia/ (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. Forest Service: Status of Geographic Information System Acquisition; IMTEC-89-27; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Madigan, J. P. Regulation of Localization and Function of the Rho Family Small GTPase, Rnd3. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 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

Saslow, L. The Week; County Bans Sale of Plants That Are Deemed Harmful. New York Times, 2007, 14LI2.

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
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