How to format your references using the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular 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	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

[1]

R. Verduzco, Actuating materials. Shape-shifting liquid crystals, Science. 347 (2015) 949–950.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Cruz, B.G. Green, Thermal stimulation of taste, Nature. 403 (2000) 889–892.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Kuzuyama, J.P. Noel, S.B. Richard, Structural basis for the promiscuous biosynthetic prenylation of aromatic natural products, Nature. 435 (2005) 983–987.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Körding, M. Rupen, C. Knigge, R. Fender, V. Dhawan, M. Templeton, T. Muxlow, A transient radio jet in an erupting dwarf nova, Science. 320 (2008) 1318–1320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Cooney, How to Be Great at Doing Good, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

S.V. Raghavan, E. Dawson, eds., An Investigation into the Detection and Mitigation of Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks: Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Springer India, New Delhi, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Hathorn, S.C. Chapman, Historical and Prospective Applications of ‘Quantitative Genomics’ in Utilising Germplasm Resources, in: R. Tuberosa, A. Graner, E. Frison (Eds.), Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 93–110.

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 Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, A Schoolboy In The UK Pointed Out An Error To NASA On The ISS, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-schoolboy-in-the-uk-pointed-out-an-error-to-nasa-on-the-iss/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, The Education of the New Public Executive, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Cagle West, Effective software engineering leadership for development programs, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2010.

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]

J. Koblin, Scripted TV Shows Balloon, but Some Fear a Pop, New York Times. (2016) B2.

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 Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Abbreviation	J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0960-0760
Scope	Biochemistry Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Endocrinology Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism