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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Functional Morphology 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	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

Gossett, J.M. Environment. Fishing for Microbes. Science 2002, 298, 974–975.

A journal article with 2 authors

Qian, L.; Winfree, E. Scaling up Digital Circuit Computation with DNA Strand Displacement Cascades. Science 2011, 332, 1196–1201.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner, S.L.; Barken, D.; Hoffmann, A. Stimulus Specificity of Gene Expression Programs Determined by Temporal Control of IKK Activity. Science 2005, 309, 1857–1861.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hirowatari, Y.; Yoshida, H.; Kurosawa, H.; Manita, D.; Tada, N. Automated Measurement Method for the Determination of Vitamin E in Plasma Lipoprotein Classes. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4086.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wei, J. Great Inventions That Changed the World; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118342749.

An edited book

Generalized Continua and Dislocation Theory: Theoretical Concepts, Computational Methods and Experimental Verification; Sansour, C., Skatulla, S., Eds.; CISM Courses and Lectures; Springer: Vienna, 2012; Vol. 537; ISBN 9783709112212.

A chapter in an edited book

Mashiko, H.; Bell, M.J.; Beck, A.R.; Neumark, D.M.; Leone, S.R. Frequency Tunable Attosecond Apparatus. In Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science: Volume X; Yamanouchi, K., Paulus, G.G., Mathur, D., Eds.; Springer Series in Chemical Physics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 49–63 ISBN 9783319005201.

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 Morphology and Kinesiology.

Blog post

Davis, J. Ancient Horseshoe Crabs Are Dying In Scores Off The Japanese Coast (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 Athletic Department Profiles; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Iniguez, D. Mentoring through Performing Arts; A Grant Proposal for at Risk Youth in Middle School. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Kenigsberg, B. 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour. New York Times 2017, C10.

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 Morphology and Kinesiology
Abbreviation	J. Funct. Morphol. Kinesiol.
ISSN (online)	2411-5142
Scope