How to format your references using the Journal of Bioscience and Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bioscience and Medicine. 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. Zerhouni E. Medicine. The NIH Roadmap. Science. 2003;302:63–72.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Krasnopolsky VA, Feldman PD. Detection of molecular hydrogen in the atmosphere of Mars. Science. 2001;294:1914–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Vreeland RH, Rosenzweig WD, Powers DW. Isolation of a 250 million-year-old halotolerant bacterium from a primary salt crystal. Nature. 2000;407:897–900.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sewell H, Tanaka T, El Omari K, Mancini EJ, Cruz A, Fernandez-Fuentes N, et al. Conformational flexibility of the oncogenic protein LMO2 primes the formation of the multi-protein transcription complex. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3643.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rogers DW. Concise Physical Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Klügl F, Ossowski S, editors. Multiagent System Technologies: 9th German Conference, MATES 2011, Berlin, Germany, October 6-7, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jimenez-Villar E, Mestre V, De Sá GF. High Performance in Random Laser Using a Colloidal Suspension of TiO2@Silica Nanoparticles. In: Ribeiro PA, Raposo M, editors. Photoptics 2014: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 39–49.

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 Bioscience and Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Unique Dwarf Galaxy May Shed Light On The Early Universe. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/unique-dwarf-galaxy-may-shed-light-early-universe/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Screening Partnership Program: Improved Cost Estimates Can Enhance Program Decision Making. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Ray SE. Impact of Training Intervention on Emotional Intelligence in Health Care Administrators and Physician Leaders. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix; 2012.

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. Yablonsky L. The Sleep Cure. New York Times. 2009;:M262.

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 Bioscience and Medicine
ISSN (print)	2161-2625
Scope

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