How to format your references using the Journal of Biorheology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biorheology. 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

1. Narbonne GM. Geochemistry. Ocean chemistry and early animals. Science. 2010;328:53–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dobberstein B, Sinning I. Structural biology. Surprising news from the PCC. Science. 2004;303:320–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee MG, Park HS, Hwang HS. Detection of a large-scale structure of intracluster globular clusters in the Virgo cluster. Science. 2010;328:334–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fukidome H, Kotsugi M, Nagashio K, Sato R, Ohkochi T, Itoh T, et al. Orbital-specific tunability of many-body effects in bilayer graphene by gate bias and metal contact. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3713.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Process Safety in Outsourced Manufacturing Operations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2000.

An edited book

1. Ziviani N, Baeza-Yates R, editors. String Processing and Information Retrieval: 14th International Symposium, SPIRE 2007 Santiago, Chile, October 29-31, 2007 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Blum ME. The Historical Logic of Non-Verbal Expression in Everyday Life and the Arts: The Perceptual Foundation of the Precept. In: Coohill PT, editor. Art Inspiring Transmutations of Life. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 39–69.

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 Biorheology.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. Virgin Galactic Flies Again Two Years After Devastating Crash. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Coordination, Policy Development, and Implementation for International Telecommunications Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Aug. Report No.: 106775.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sweeney MT. Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare treatment outcomes: Wediko Children’s Services short-term residential treatment program [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. Feeney K. Saturday Bustle. New York Times. 2008 Sep 14;NJ16.

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 Biorheology
ISSN (print)	1867-0466
ISSN (online)	1867-0474
Scope