How to format your references using the Journal of Sleep Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sleep Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Xu, Z. Modernization: One step at a time. Nature, 2011, 480: S90-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jang, H.-J., Cho, W.-J. Performance enhancement of capacitive-coupling dual-gate ion-sensitive field-effect transistor in ultra-thin-body. Sci. Rep., 2014, 4: 5284.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hermans, T.M., Frauenrath, H., Stellacci, F. Materials science. Droplets out of equilibrium. Science, 2013, 341: 243–244.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cino, E.A., Killoran, R.C., Karttunen, M., Choy, W.-Y. Binding of disordered proteins to a protein hub. Sci. Rep., 2013, 3: 2305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balani, K., Verma, V., Agarwal, A., Narayan, R. Biosurfaces. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ , 2014.

An edited book

Whitacre, D.M. ed Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Springer International Publishing, Cham , 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Luo, J. Travel-Time Based Reactive Transport Modeling for In Situ Subsurface Reactor. In: Kitanidis, P.K. and McCarty, P.L. (eds.) Delivery and Mixing in the Subsurface: Processes and Design Principles for In Situ Remediation. pp. 117–138. Springer, New York, NY (2012).

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 Sleep Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. Study Shows Direct Manipulation Of Brain Can Reverse Effects Of Depression, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/study-shows-direct-manipulation-of-brain-can-reverse-effects-of-depression/.

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 FAA’s Voice Switching and Control System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC , 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McKenzie, N.J. African/Black psychology: A qualitative investigation of distinguished Black psychologists, 2012.

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

Hollander, S. In Class A, Yankees Are Still Winners, 2002.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Xu, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jang and Cho, 2014; Xu, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Jang and Cho, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Cino et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sleep Research
Abbreviation	J. Sleep Res.
ISSN (print)	0962-1105
ISSN (online)	1365-2869
Scope	General Medicine Behavioral Neuroscience Cognitive Neuroscience