How to format your references using the Nonlinear Biomedical Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Nonlinear Biomedical Physics. 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

1. Butler D. Power to the people. Nature. 2004;430:928–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rogers G, Dragert H. Episodic tremor and slip on the Cascadia subduction zone: the chatter of silent slip. Science. 2003;300:1942–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Mietto P, Avanzini M, Rolandi G. Palaeontology: Human footprints in Pleistocene volcanic ash. Nature. 2003;422:133.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Humeau Y, Shaban H, Bissière S, Lüthi A. Presynaptic induction of heterosynaptic associative plasticity in the mammalian brain. Nature. 2003;426:841–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Johansen GA, Jackson P. Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Du D-Z. Connected Dominating Set: Theory and Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kras JF. Perioperative Considerations of Do Not Resuscitate and Do Not Intubate Orders in Adult Patients. In: Jericho BG, editor. Ethical Issues in Anesthesiology and Surgery. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 45–57.

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 Nonlinear Biomedical Physics.

Blog post

1. Taub B. Humans Can “See” Individual Photons, Claims Study. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/humans-can-see-individual-photons-claims-study/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Amtrak Training: Improvements Needed for Employees Who Inspect and Maintain Rail Equipment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Turpie KR. Enhancement of a canopy reflectance model for understanding the specular and spectral effects of an aquatic background in an inundated tidal marsh. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park; 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

1. Kelly K, Bray C. Held to Account. New York Times. 2017;:B1.

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	Nonlinear Biomedical Physics
ISSN (print)	1753-4631
Scope

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