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

Moore P. Hot from the vent. Nature 2005;435(7039):235.

A journal article with 2 authors

Raymo ME, Mitrovica JX. Collapse of polar ice sheets during the stage 11 interglacial. Nature 2012;483(7390):453–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Emile O, Le Floch A, Vollrath F. Biopolymers: shape memory in spider draglines. Nature 2006;440(7084):621.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu J, Zou R, Wang Q, Xue Y, Wei P, Yang S, et al. A peptide probe for the detection of neurokinin-1 receptor by disaggregation enhanced fluorescence and magnetic resonance signals. Sci Rep 2014;4:6487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gardi F, Benoist T, Darlay J, Estellon B, Megel R. Mathematical Programming Solver Based on Local Search. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Hayat MA, editor. Tumors of the Central Nervous system, Volume 3: Brain Tumors (Part 1). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Huang W, Gordon LS. Mixed Modeling for Physician-Direct Campaigns. In: Hu M, Liu Y, Lin J, editors. Topics in Applied Statistics: 2012 Symposium of the International Chinese Statistical Association. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. page 39–47.

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

Andrew E. Complex Sugar Molecules May Be The Key To Safer Chemo [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/complex-sugar-molecules-may-be-key-safer-chemo/

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. Status of FCC Efforts To Allocate Costs Between Telephone Companies’ Regulated and Unregulated Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Necaise KW. Effects of soybean-derived phytoestrogens on reproductive tract development in neonatal male and female pigs: Animal model for the human infant. 2012;

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

Walsh MW. California Debt Higher Than Earlier Estimates, a Task Force Reports. New York Times2012;A18.

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

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