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

McMullen K. Experimental physics, experimental art. Nature 2005;434(7031):310–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig JD, Jayaraman V. Feature detection and orientation tuning in the Drosophila central complex. Nature 2013;503(7475):262–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jensen K, Call J, Tomasello M. Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science 2007;318(5847):107–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tsutsui M, Morikawa T, Arima A, Taniguchi M. Thermoelectricity in atom-sized junctions at room temperatures. Sci Rep 2013;3:3326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernandez-Maloigne C, Robert-Inacio F, Macaire L. Digital Color. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Beham B, Straub C, Schwalbach J, editors. Managing Diversity in Organizations. Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Winokur T. Molecular Markers in Breast Cancer. In: Chhieng DC, Siegal GP, editors. Updates in Diagnostic Pathology. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2005. page 35–41.

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. Activity Patterns Of The Brain Are As Unique As Fingerprints [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/activity-patterns-brain-are-unique-finger-prints/

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. Quality Management: Scoping Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ayer EW. An N-gram enhanced learning classifier for Chinese character recognition. 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

Rohan T. War Zone at Mile 26: ‘So Many People Without Legs.’ New York Times2013;A1.

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