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

Nogrady, B. 2014. Immunotherapy: Chemical tricks. Nature. 513:S10-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shlomai, A., and C.M. Rice. 2014. Virology. Getting rid of a persistent troublemaker to cure hepatitis. Science. 343:1212–1213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tayagaki, T., Y. Hoshi, and N. Usami. 2013. Investigation of the open-circuit voltage in solar cells doped with quantum dots. Sci. Rep. 3:2703.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Harris, R.G., E.L. Herzog, E.M. Bruscia, J.E. Grove, J.S. Van Arnam, and D.S. Krause. 2004. Lack of a fusion requirement for development of bone marrow-derived epithelia. Science. 305:90–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre, D. 2013. Information Warfare. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Skibo, J.M. 2008. People and Things: A Behavioral Approach to Material Culture. M.B. Schiffer, editor. Springer, New York, NY. XIII, 170 p. 16 illus pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Stacul, F. 2006. Late Adverse Reactions to Intravascular Iodinated Contrast Media. In Contrast Media: Safety Issues and ESUR Guidelines. H.S. Thomsen, editor. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 27–31.

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

Andrew, E. 2013. The Next Steps of HIV Treatment. 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. 2006. Intermodal Transportation: Challenges to and Potential Strategies for Developing Improved Intermodal Capabilities. 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

Tapal, S.S. 2012. Is the fourth generation of Six Sigma an effective professional development model in K-12 education? University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

St. John Kelly, E. 1997. NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: MARINE PARK -- UPDATE ; Mariners Are Still Riding High. New York Times. 1410.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nogrady, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nogrady, 2014; Shlomai and Rice, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Shlomai and Rice, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Harris et al., 2004)

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