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

Billups K. Climate science: timing is everything during deglaciations. Nature. 2015 Jun 11;522(7555):163–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brunham LR, Hayden MR. Medicine. Whole-genome sequencing: the new standard of care? Science. 2012 Jun 1;336(6085):1112–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kessler A, Halitschke R, Baldwin IT. Silencing the jasmonate cascade: induced plant defenses and insect populations. Science. 2004 Jul 30;305(5684):665–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Serizawa S, Miyamichi K, Nakatani H, Suzuki M, Saito M, Yoshihara Y, et al. Negative feedback regulation ensures the one receptor-one olfactory neuron rule in mouse. Science. 2003 Dec 19;302(5653):2088–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart JM. Managing for World Class Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

Mark D. Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 2: Exploring the iOS SDK. Topley K, Nutting J, Olsson F, LaMarche J, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2015. XXIII, 854 p. 372 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Li W, Zou Z. Cross-Reactivity. In: Tao A, Raz E, editors. Allergy Bioinformatics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 67–92. (Translational Bioinformatics).

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Hundreds of Erupting Methane Plumes Discovered Along U.S. East Coast. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/hundreds-erupting-methane-plumes-discovered-along-us-east-coast/

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. Comments on NASA Budget Expenditures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1963 Dec. Report No.: B-152554.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ward VJ. A study of the perceptions of first-year teachers as prepared classroom teachers [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2015.

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

Sisario B. On Adele’s Big Night, She Lauds Beyoncé. New York Times. 2017 Feb 12;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