How to format your references using the Journal of Laboratory Physicians citation style

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

Goodman S. Bricks and mortar. Nature 2004;427(6975):660.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hochedlinger K, Jaenisch R. Nuclear reprogramming and pluripotency. Nature 2006;441(7097):1061–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rawson PD, Yund PO, Lindsay SM. Comment on “Divergent induced responses to an invasive predator in marine mussel populations.” Science 2007;316(5821):53; author reply 53.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cole MT, Teo KBK, Groening O, Gangloff L, Legagneux P, Milne WI. Deterministic cold cathode electron emission from carbon nanofibre arrays. Sci Rep 2014;4:4840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kitai A. Principles of Solar Cells, LEDs and Diodes: The role of the PN junction. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Nguyen NT, Jain LC, editors. Intelligent Agents in the Evolution of Web and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Baghdasaryan G, Mikilyan M. Natural Vibrations of Conducting Shells in a Stationary Magnetic Field. In: Mikilyan M, editor. Effects of Magnetoelastic Interactions in Conductive Plates and Shells. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. page 109–30.

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 Laboratory Physicians.

Blog post

Davis J. Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Leg Unveiled [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/mind-controlled-prosthetic-leg-unveiled/

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. APHIS: Solid Wood Packing Material From China. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stephens BS. Understanding CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 Activation by CXC Chemokine Ligand 12. 2017;

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

Vecsey G. Sports Share the Stage at the White House. New York Times2011;B16.

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 Laboratory Physicians
Abbreviation	J. Lab. Physicians
ISSN (print)	0974-2727
ISSN (online)	0974-7826
Scope