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

Brooks, B.A., 2012. Geophysics. Seeing is believing. Science 338, 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vert, G., Chory, J., 2006. Downstream nuclear events in brassinosteroid signalling. Nature 441, 96–100.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, L., Li, X.-Q., Sun, Q.-F., 2014. Revisit the spin-FET: multiple reflection, inelastic scattering, and lateral size effects. Sci. Rep. 4, 7527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wentz, F.J., Ricciardulli, L., Hilburn, K., Mears, C., 2007. How much more rain will global warming bring? Science 317, 233–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Clark, G., 2014. The Making of a World City. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Waller, P., 2016. Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, 1st ed. 2016. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Conti, N., Memoli, V., 2016. One or Many EUs?, in: Memoli, V. (Ed.), Citizens, Europe and the Media: Have New Media Made Citizens More Eurosceptical? Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–68.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Scientists Identify A Mechanism That Facilitates Brain Repair Following Stroke [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, 1973. Selection and Use of Contractor for Development of a Management Information System for the Atomic Energy Commission (No. B-164105). 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

Carrillo, J., 2010. Parenting education curriculum for single adolescent mothers in foster care (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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Weekend Entertainments from the Archives of The New York Times. New York Times C33.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brooks, 2012; Vert and Chory, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vert and Chory, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wentz et al., 2007)

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)

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