How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematical Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical Biology. 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

Kondo S (2014) Developmental biology. Self-organizing somites. Science 343:736–737

A journal article with 2 authors

Peale SJ, Lee MH (2002) A primordial origin of the Laplace relation among the Galilean satellites. Science 298:593–597

A journal article with 3 authors

Rey PF, Coltice N, Flament N (2014) Spreading continents kick-started plate tectonics. Nature 513:405–408

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bennett JT, Stickney HL, Choi W-Y, et al (2007) Maternal nodal and zebrafish embryogenesis. Nature 450:E1-2; discussion E2-4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tolin DF, Worden BL, Wootton BM, Gilliam CM (2017) CBT for Hoarding Disorder. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Machiraju VR, Schaff HV, Svensson LG (eds) (2012) Redo Cardiac Surgery in Adults, Second Edition. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Jalongo MR, Machado C (2016) Workshop/Professional Development Sessions. In: Machado C (ed) Making Effective Presentations at Professional Conferences: A Guide for Teachers, Graduate Students and Professors. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 55–61

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 Mathematical Biology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Poachers Are Using Scientific Papers To Locate Endangered Species’ Whereabouts. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/poachers-are-using-scientific-papers-to-locate-endangered-species-whereabouts-/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2016) Social Security Offsets: Improvements to Program Design Could Better Assist Older Student Loan Borrowers with Obtaining Permitted Relief. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winkelhake B (2015) Verbal argumentativeness: A study of retail store managers. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Semple K, Chen DW (2015) In Skelos Case, a Son Whose Life Seemed to Lose Traction Early. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kondo 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Peale and Lee 2002; Kondo 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Peale and Lee 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bennett et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Biology
Abbreviation	J. Math. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0303-6812
ISSN (online)	1432-1416
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation