How to format your references using the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology citation style

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

Conklin, B.R., 2009. Journal club. A geneticist wonders why we need to sleep. Nature 461, 573.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwefel, H.G.L., Türeci, H.E., 2015. Optics. A chaotic approach clears up imaging. Science 348, 189–190.

A journal article with 3 authors

Trautt, Z.T., Upmanyu, M., Karma, A., 2006. Interface mobility from interface random walk. Science 314, 632–635.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maret, S., Franken, P., Dauvilliers, Y., Ghyselinck, N.B., Chambon, P., Tafti, M., 2005. Retinoic acid signaling affects cortical synchrony during sleep. Science 310, 111–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tapiero, C.S., 2010. Risk Finance and Asset Pricing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mohan, J., 2016. The Logic of Charity: Great Expectations in Hard Times. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Özgen, S., Demirekler, M., 2016. A Fast Elimination Method for Pruning in POMDPs, in: Friedrich, G., Helmert, M., Wotawa, F. (Eds.), KI 2016: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 39th Annual German Conference on AI, Klagenfurt, Austria, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 56–68.

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 Electromyography and Kinesiology.

Blog post

Taub, B., 2016. There’s A Gene That Reverses Cellular Aging, And Now We Know How [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Data on the Office of Education’s Use of Funds for Conferences, Seminars, and Training Sessions, and Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations in Lieu of Federal Employees (No. MWD-75-88). 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

Sevilla, A.D., 2014. The moderating influence of core self-evaluation, emotional intelligence and extraversion on career success (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Harvey, Walker and Lagares Join the Mets’ Lengthy Injured List. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Conklin, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Conklin, 2009; Schwefel and Türeci, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Schwefel and Türeci, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Maret et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
Abbreviation	J. Electromyogr. Kinesiol.
ISSN (print)	1050-6411
Scope	Biophysics Clinical Neurology Neuroscience (miscellaneous)