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

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

Frank, L. 2002. Biotechnology in the Medicon Valley. Nature. 420:A27, A29, A31 passim.

A journal article with 2 authors

Druzd, D., and C. Scheiermann. 2013. Immunology. Some monocytes got rhythm. Science. 341:1462–1464.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sachs, R., Z. Lin, and J. Shi. 2014. Ferroelectric-like SrTiO3 surface dipoles probed by graphene. Sci. Rep. 4:3657.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Cayuela, M.L., M.A. Sánchez-Monedero, A. Roig, K. Hanley, A. Enders, and J. Lehmann. 2013. Biochar and denitrification in soils: when, how much and why does biochar reduce N₂O emissions? Sci. Rep. 3:1732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens, H. 2012. Building Physics: Heat, Air and Moisture. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Ilic, D. ed. . 2014. Stem Cell Banking. Springer, New York, NY. XVII, 168 p. 26 illus., 21 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Napadow, V., R.P. Dhond, and N.W. Kettner. 2008. Neuroimaging for the Evaluation of CAM Mechanisms. In Integrative Pain Medicine: The Science and Practice of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pain Management. J.F. Audette and A. Bailey, editors. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. 85–106.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2017. The World’s Oldest Cave Paintings Made From Dots Found In France. 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. 2007. Financial Market Preparedness: Significant Progress Has Been Made, but Pandemic Planning and Other Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Murillo, K. 2010. An analysis of California community college budget policy key components in multicollege districts. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Karr, M. 2010. JAN. 15, 2006: Thanks for The Memoirs. New York Times. F15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frank, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Frank, 2002; Druzd and Scheiermann, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Druzd and Scheiermann, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Cayuela et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Med.
ISSN (print)	0022-1007
ISSN (online)	1540-9538
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy