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. Jayaraman KS. Funding crisis for Indian biotech centre. Nature. 2000;403:694.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Liao J-Q, Nori F. Single-photon quadratic optomechanics. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6302.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Purdy TP, Peterson RW, Regal CA. Observation of radiation pressure shot noise on a macroscopic object. Science. 2013;339:801–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yuan S, Wang J, Zhu D, Wang N, Gao Q, Chen W, et al. Cryo-EM structure of a herpesvirus capsid at 3.1 Å. Science. 2018;360.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Raynaud H, Arrow KJ. Managerial Logic. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2011.

An edited book

1. Xu L. Visual Quality Assessment by Machine Learning. Lin W, Kuo C-CJ, editors. Singapore: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dobkin PL, Hassed CS. Steps for Starting and Sustaining Programs. In: Hassed CS, editor. Mindful Medical Practitioners: A Guide for Clinicians and Educators. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 65–74.

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. Andrew D. Do We Really Need To Do Five Times As Much Exercise As We’ve Been Told? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-we-really-need-to-do-five-times-as-much-exercise-as-weve-been-told/

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. HEW Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Mar. Report No.: 105389.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fertig BM. Stable nitrogen isotopes (delta-nitrogen-15) in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) as an indicator of nitrogen source [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Otis J. Penn Station Inhabitant Gets a Home of Her Own. New York Times. 2016 Dec 10;A17.

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