How to format your references using the Sleep and Biological Rhythms citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sleep and Biological Rhythms. 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. Howard K. The view from the top. Nature. 2003;426:696–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Yasunaga M, Matsumura Y. Role of SLC6A6 in promoting the survival and multidrug resistance of colorectal cancer. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4852.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Applegate PJ, Lowell TV, Alley RB. Comment on “Absence of cooling in New Zealand and the adjacent ocean during the Younger Dryas chronozone.” Science. 2008;320:746; author reply 746.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li J, Huang S, Shao K, Liu Y, An S, Kuang Y, et al. A choline derivate-modified nanoprobe for glioma diagnosis using MRI. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1623.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Goldberger AL, Goldberger ZD. Becoming a Consummate Clinician. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Chaki N, Cortesi A, editors. Computer Information Systems – Analysis and Technologies: 10th International Conference, CISIM 2011, Kolkata, India, December 14-16, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Clay SM, Fong SS. Systems Biology. In: Fong SS, editor. Developing Biofuel Bioprocesses Using Systems and Synthetic Biology. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 21–36.

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 Sleep and Biological Rhythms.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. New Plastic Degrades In Just Three Hours [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-plastic-degrades-just-three-hours/

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. CROSSTALK and Mirror: What’s New Under the CROSSTALK Standard--Part 1. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Mar. Report No.: 140678.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Harris R. Stone circles and sandplay therapy: The language of symbols [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 2011.

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. Gorman J. A Flightless Bird Grounded by DNA. New York Times. 2017 Jun 1;D3.

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	Sleep and Biological Rhythms
Abbreviation	Sleep Biol. Rhythms
ISSN (print)	1446-9235
ISSN (online)	1479-8425
Scope	Physiology Physiology (medical) Neurology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology