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

Sobek S (2014) Climate science: cold carbon storage. Nature 511:415–417

A journal article with 2 authors

McFarland EW, Tang J (2003) A photovoltaic device structure based on internal electron emission. Nature 421:616–618

A journal article with 3 authors

Mignot T, Merlie JP Jr, Zusman DR (2005) Regulated pole-to-pole oscillations of a bacterial gliding motility protein. Science 310:855–857

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Phua KKL, Staats HF, Leong KW, Nair SK (2014) Intranasal mRNA nanoparticle vaccination induces prophylactic and therapeutic anti-tumor immunity. Sci Rep 4:5128

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scharf T (2006) Polarized Light in Liquid Crystals and Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Duplantier B, Rivasseau V (eds) (2015) Henri Poincaré, 1912–2012: Poincaré Seminar 2012. Springer, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang T, Yan X, Han Z (2010) The Comparison and Analysis of GP, GEP and GEP_EDA in Modeling System. In: Cai Z, Tong H, Kang Z, Liu Y (eds) Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Systems: 5th International Symposium, ISICA 2010, Wuhan, China, October 22-24, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–46

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Funnel Formed By Volcano On Mars Could Be A Prime Location For Life. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/funnel-volcano-mars-life/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of State Automated Systems That Support Federal Human Services Programs. 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

John SP (2017) Drying without Dying: The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis polypodioides. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Cohen P (2017) Storms Lead Jobs to Fall; First Decline In 7 Years. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sobek 2014).
This sentence cites two references (McFarland and Tang 2003; Sobek 2014).

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

Two authors: (McFarland and Tang 2003)
Three or more authors: (Phua et al. 2014)

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