How to format your references using the Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine. 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

1. Rice C. Perspective: miles to go before we sleep. Nature. 2011;474:S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rychert CA, Shearer PM. A global view of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary. Science. 2009;324:495–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lee J, Gross SP, Lee J. Improved network community structure improves function prediction. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2197.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gross L, Mohn F, Moll N, Liljeroth P, Meyer G. The chemical structure of a molecule resolved by atomic force microscopy. Science. 2009;325:1110–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bowling J. Diagnostic Dermoscopy. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Romberg O. Don’t Panic with Mechanics!: Fun and success in the “loser discipline” of engineering studies! Hinrichs N, editor. Wiesbaden: Vieweg; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Maher CA, Sran MK, Yankelewitz D. Building an Inductive Argument. In: Maher CA, Powell AB, Uptegrove EB, editors. Combinatorics and Reasoning: Representing, Justifying and Building Isomorphisms. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010. p. 45–57.

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 Materials Science: Materials in Medicine.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Mutilated Child Skeletons Hint At Human Sacrifice In Pre-Columbian Peru. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Information Technology Management: Governmentwide Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, and Investment Management Can Be Further Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jan. Report No.: GAO-04-49.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dinh H. A study of cell-based genetic algorithms with applications to neural networks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Koblin J. E!, a Mainstay on the Red Carpet, Buys the People’s Choice Awards. New York Times. 2017 Apr 6;B4.

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 Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med.
ISSN (print)	0957-4530
ISSN (online)	1573-4838
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials