How to format your references using the Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bloom P (2004) Behavior. Can a dog learn a word? Science 304:1605–1606

A journal article with 2 authors

Sur M, Rubenstein JLR (2005) Patterning and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. Science 310:805–810

A journal article with 3 authors

Suzuki T, Asami M, Perry ACF (2014) Asymmetric parental genome engineering by Cas9 during mouse meiotic exit. Sci Rep 4:7621

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Carey JB, Vrdoljak A, O’Mahony C, et al (2014) Microneedle-mediated immunization of an adenovirus-based malaria vaccine enhances antigen-specific antibody immunity and reduces anti-vector responses compared to the intradermal route. Sci Rep 4:6154

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feyel P (2013) Loop-shaping Robust Control. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Isahara H, Kanzaki K (2012) Advances in Natural Language Processing: 8th International Conference on NLP, JapTAL 2012, Kanazawa, Japan, October 22-24, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Perez-Ruiz F, Herrero-Beites AM (2014) Prevention and Treatment of Inflammation in Gout. In: Herrero-Beites AM (ed) Managing Gout in Primary Care. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, pp 53–66

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 Bone and Mineral Metabolism.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) No More Science Fiction: 3D Holographic Images. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/no-more-science-fiction-3d-holographic-images/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1975) Inefficient Management of F-14 Spare Parts. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frey EF (2008) Technology diffusion and environmental regulation: Evidence from electric power plants under the Clean Air Act. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Kelly C (2007) New Libraries That Don’t Just Go by the Book. New York Times WE9

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 Bone and Mineral Metabolism
Abbreviation	J. Bone Miner. Metab.
ISSN (print)	0914-8779
ISSN (online)	1435-5604
Scope	Endocrinology General Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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