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

Lawler A. ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: Silent No Longer: “Model Minority” Mobilizes. Science 2000;290(5494):1072–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hammock EAD, Young LJ. Microsatellite instability generates diversity in brain and sociobehavioral traits. Science 2005;308(5728):1630–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Scaffidi P, Misteli T, Bianchi ME. Release of chromatin protein HMGB1 by necrotic cells triggers inflammation. Nature 2002;418(6894):191–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Vermot J, Gallego Llamas J, Fraulob V, Niederreither K, Chambon P, Dollé P. Retinoic acid controls the bilateral symmetry of somite formation in the mouse embryo. Science 2005;308(5721):563–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Budisa N. Engineering the Genetic Code. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

Ebara M. Smart Biomaterials. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Crozier AJ. The Trade and Aid Policy of the European Union: A Historical Perspective. In: Welfens PJJ, Ryan C, Chirathivat S, Knipping F, editors. EU - Asean: Facing Economic Globalisation. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. page 57–71.

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

Luntz S. Superfast Raindrops Seem To Break The Laws Of Physics [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/raindrops-keep-falling-faster-they-should/

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. Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Steps Designed to Develop Processes for Sharing and Analyzing Information and to Improve Rail Security Incident Reporting. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen SA. Dispersed Social Work: Understanding Social Presence and Organizational Identification Through the Use of New Communication Technologies. 2014;

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

Kelly D. IN SHORT: FICTION. New York Times1995;720.

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