How to format your references using the Journal of Functional Biomaterials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Goldston, D. Misspent Energy. Nature 2007, 447, 130.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dixon, A.R.; Sato, H. High Speed and Adaptable Error Correction for Megabit/s Rate Quantum Key Distribution. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7275.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winston, W.M.; Molodowitch, C.; Hunter, C.P. Systemic RNAi in C. Elegans Requires the Putative Transmembrane Protein SID-1. Science 2002, 295, 2456–2459.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Högberg, P.; Nordgren, A.; Buchmann, N.; Taylor, A.F.; Ekblad, A.; Högberg, M.N.; Nyberg, G.; Ottosson-Löfvenius, M.; Read, D.J. Large-Scale Forest Girdling Shows That Current Photosynthesis Drives Soil Respiration. Nature 2001, 411, 789–792.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zirngibl, L. Antifungal Azoles; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527602681.

An edited book

Image Analysis and Recognition: 9th International Conference, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Part I; Campilho, A., Kamel, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; Vol. 7324; ISBN 9783642312946.

A chapter in an edited book

Gao, W.; Ma, S. Prediction Coding. In Advanced Video Coding Systems; Ma, S., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 51–78 ISBN 9783319142425.

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 Functional Biomaterials.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak Live Webcast (accessed on 30 October 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 Evaluation of NASA Compliance With Congressional Reprogramming Requirements; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1982;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson, A.M. A Novel Role for MUC7 Mucin Glycoprotein in the Innate Immunity and Genetic Propensity of Asthma. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2009.

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

Burghardt, L.F. The Legacies They Left. New York Times 2006, 14LI6.

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 Functional Biomaterials
Abbreviation	J. Funct. Biomater.
ISSN (online)	2079-4983
Scope