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. Abbott A. Science in culture: Visual zoology. Historical wall charts found in Pavia. Nature. 2003;421:580.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. McGuire AL, Gibbs RA. Genetics. No longer de-identified. Science. 2006;312:370–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wuchty S, Jones BF, Uzzi B. The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge. Science. 2007;316:1036–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mold JE, Michaëlsson J, Burt TD, Muench MO, Beckerman KP, Busch MP, et al. Maternal alloantigens promote the development of tolerogenic fetal regulatory T cells in utero. Science. 2008;322:1562–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sheldrake P. The Spiritual City. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Chatterjee S. Identity-Based Encryption. Sarkar P, editor. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Dunoff JL. Is Sovereign Equality Obsolete? Understanding Twenty-First Century International Organizations. In: Nijman JE, Werner WG, editors. Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012: Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law - Essays in Honour of PH Kooijmans. The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press; 2013. p. 99–127.

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. O`Callaghan J. This Video Relives The Moment We Landed On A Moon In The Outer Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. NASA’s Standard Parts Program--Are the Objectives Being Accomplished? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981 Jan. Report No.: PSAD-81-18.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hylton JK. Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2016.

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. Sisario B. Concert Giants Seek Gold in New York Grit. New York Times. 2017 Jan 30;B1.

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