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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR). 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

Long TE. Materials science. Toward recyclable thermosets. Science. 2014 May 16;344(6185):706–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulsen M, Boomsma JJ. Mutualistic fungi control crop diversity in fungus-growing ants. Science. 2005 Feb 4;307(5710):741–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dinner AR, Blackburn GM, Karplus M. Uracil-DNA glycosylase acts by substrate autocatalysis. Nature. 2001 Oct 18;413(6857):752–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wilhelm BT, Marguerat S, Watt S, Schubert F, Wood V, Goodhead I, Penkett CJ, Rogers J, Bähler J. Dynamic repertoire of a eukaryotic transcriptome surveyed at single-nucleotide resolution. Nature. 2008 Jun 26;453(7199):1239–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duffy DJ. Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Zilberman D, Otte J, Roland-Holst D, Pfeiffer D, editors. Health and Animal Agriculture in Developing Countries. 1st ed. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Garion S. Beauville Surfaces and Probabilistic Group Theory. In: Bauer I, Garion S, Vdovina A, editors. Beauville Surfaces and Groups. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 63–78.

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 Research.

Blog post

Davis J. Scientists Film White Blood Cells Dying for the First Time Ever. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Training and Education Programs for Civilian Employees in the Federal Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jul. Report No.: B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Daum MA. Busy Fingers, Wordless Thoughts: Entering the Knot of Compulsive Hair Twisting [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Delreal JA, Bromwich JE. Suspect, an Unmoored Retiree, Kept Quiet and Gambled Often. New York Times. 2017 Oct 2;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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 Research
Abbreviation	J. Bone Miner. Res.
ISSN (print)	0884-0431
ISSN (online)	1523-4681
Scope	Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Orthopedics and Sports Medicine