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. Anandan J. Quantum mechanics. Putting a spin on the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations. Science. 2002;297:1656–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pollard D, DeConto RM. Modelling West Antarctic ice sheet growth and collapse through the past five million years. Nature. 2009;458:329–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Robinson CV, Sali A, Baumeister W. The molecular sociology of the cell. Nature. 2007;450:973–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Kondhare KR, Hedden P, Kettlewell PS, Farrell AD, Monaghan JM. Quantifying the impact of exogenous abscisic acid and gibberellins on pre-maturity α-amylase formation in developing wheat grains. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5355.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Di Stefano M. Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Ehrenfeld JM, Urman RD, Segal S, editors. Anesthesia Student Survival Guide: A Case-Based Approach. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Pelcat M, Aridhi S, Piat J, Nezan J-F. Rapid Prototyping and Programming Multi-Core Architectures. In: Aridhi S, Piat J, Nezan J-F, editors. Physical Layer Multi-Core Prototyping: A Dataflow-Based Approach for LTE eNodeB. London: Springer; 2013. p. 77–102.

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. Hale T. This Guy Built A Homemade Hoverbike In His Shed. 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: Foundational Steps Being Taken to Make Needed FBI Systems Modernization Management Improvements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Sep. Report No.: GAO-04-842.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Solano Cahuana IL. The Production of Apologies by Colombian Learners of English A Study of Pragmatic Acquisition in an EFL Context [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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. Kelly T. High-Tech Fraternity. New York Times. 1996 Nov 6;B21.

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