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

Zupanc, G.K.H., 2006. Obituary: Theodore H. Bullock (1915-2005). Nature 439, 280.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deng, M., Hochstrasser, M., 2006. Spatially regulated ubiquitin ligation by an ER/nuclear membrane ligase. Nature 443, 827–831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Delsuc, F., Phillips, M.J., Penny, D., 2003. Comment on “Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?” Science 301, 1482; author reply 1482.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Das, C., Lucia, M.S., Hansen, K.C., Tyler, J.K., 2009. CBP/p300-mediated acetylation of histone H3 on lysine 56. Nature 459, 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chin, W.C., 2014. Wave Propagation in Drilling, Well Logging and Reservoir Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Carlier, M.-F. (Ed.), 2010. Actin-based Motility: Cellular, Molecular and Physical Aspects. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Crivellaro, A., Schweingruber, F.H., 2013. Identification keys, in: Schweingruber, F.H. (Ed.), Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs: With a Special Focus on Cyprus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 37–47.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. Coffee Won’t Give You Cancer, Unless It’s Very Very Hot, Then It Might [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, 2007. Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Accreditation (No. GAO-07-314). 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

Hobbs, E., 2017. Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Belson, K., Pilon, M., 2012. Marathon Officials Determining How to Proceed. New York Times B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zupanc, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Deng and Hochstrasser, 2006; Zupanc, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Deng and Hochstrasser, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Das et al., 2009)

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)