How to format your references using the New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science. 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

Moazed D. Molecular biology. Rejoice--RNAi for yeast. Science. 2009 Oct 23;326(5952):533–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Churchman LS, Weissman JS. Nascent transcript sequencing visualizes transcription at nucleotide resolution. Nature. 2011 Jan 20;469(7330):368–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oldroyd GED, Harrison MJ, Paszkowski U. Reprogramming plant cells for endosymbiosis. Science. 2009 May 8;324(5928):753–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Takeuchi K, Mohammad S, Ozaki T, Morioka E, Kawaguchi K, Kim J, et al. Serotonin-2C receptor involved serotonin-induced Ca²⁺ mobilisations in neuronal progenitors and neurons in rat suprachiasmatic nucleus. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 17;4:4106.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burkinshaw SM. Physico-chemical Aspects of Textile Coloration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. New York, NY: Springer; 2010. XII, 152 p. 6 illus. (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Continuation of Residue Reviews; vol. 204).

A chapter in an edited book

Sohi GS, Vijaykumar TN. Speculatively Multithreaded Architectures. In: Keckler SW, Olukotun K, Hofstee HP, editors. Multicore Processors and Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. p. 111–43. (Integrated Circuits and Systems).

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 New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Concerned About Porn? Here’s What We Should Really Worry About. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/concerned-about-porn-heres-what-we-should-really-worry-about/

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. Information Technology: Federal Agencies Need to Address Aging Legacy Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 May. Report No.: GAO-16-696T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wizda LL. A case study of online peer coaching of consultant communication skill development [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Gustines GG. Restarting Comics’ Clock Is Issue No. 1. New York Times. 2011 Jun 13;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	New Zealand Journal of Medical Laboratory Science
ISSN (print)	1171-0195
Scope