How to format your references using the The Journal of Experimental Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Experimental 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

Erez, N. (2015). Cancer: Opening LOX to metastasis. Nature 522, 41–42.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez, L. M. and Angell, C. A. (2001). A thermodynamic connection to the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature 410, 663–667.

A journal article with 3 authors

Takano, A., Endo, T. and Yoshihisa, T. (2005). tRNA actively shuttles between the nucleus and cytosol in yeast. Science 309, 140–142.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Roberts, J. M., Osthoff, H. D., Brown, S. S. and Ravishankara, A. R. (2008). N2O5 oxidizes chloride to Cl2 in acidic atmospheric aerosol. Science 321, 1059.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marroni, L. and Perdomo, I. (2013). Pricing and Hedging Financial Derivatives. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Nicosevici, T. (2013). Efficient 3D Scene Modeling and Mosaicing. (ed. Garcia, R.) Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Sirenko, Y. K. and Ström, S. (2010). Modeling and Analysis of Transients in Periodic Structures: Fully Absorbing Boundaries for 2-D Open Problems. In Modern Theory of Gratings: Resonant Scattering: Analysis Techniques and Phenomena (ed. Sirenko, Y. K.) and Ström, S.), pp. 211–333. New York, NY: Springer.

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 The Journal of Experimental Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017). 9 High-Paying, Entry-Level Jobs Companies Are Hiring For Like Crazy Right Now. IFLScience.

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 (1998). Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Testing and Other Challenges Confronting Federal Agencies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berezin, S. (2009). Catechols as membrane anion transporters.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2005). Moscow: A Boom Town For Shiny New Theaters. New York Times E3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Erez, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Erez, 2015; Martinez and Angell, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Martinez and Angell, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Roberts et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Experimental Biology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0022-0949
ISSN (online)	1477-9145
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Insect Science Molecular Biology Physiology