How to format your references using the Biomedical Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Reviews. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Schnittman JD. Astronomy. The curious behavior of the milky way’s central black hole. Science. 2013 Aug 30;341(6149):964–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fraser PJ, Shelmerdine RL. Dogfish hair cells sense hydrostatic pressure. Nature. 2002 Jan 31;415(6871):495–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ohde T, Yaginuma T, Niimi T. Insect morphological diversification through the modification of wing serial homologs. Science. 2013 Apr 26;340(6131):495–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Daley DO, Rapp M, Granseth E, Melén K, Drew D, von Heijne G. Global topology analysis of the Escherichia coli inner membrane proteome. Science. 2005 May 27;308(5726):1321–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niles JD. Old English Literature. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Cartwright W, Peterson MP, Gartner G, editors. Multimedia Cartography. Second Edition. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. XXVI, 546 p. 105 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Lont M, Milosevic D, van Roermund A. Receiver Front-End Version 1. In: Milosevic D, Roermund A van, editors. Wake-up Receiver Based Ultra-Low-Power WBAN. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 93–107. (Analog Circuits and Signal Processing).

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 Biomedical Reviews.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. 3D Printer Makes Prosthetic Foot For Duck. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/3d-printer-makes-prosthetic-foot-duck/

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. Surface Transportation: Efforts to Address Highway Congestion through Real-Time Traffic Information Systems Are Expanding but Face Implementation Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Nov. Report No.: GAO-10-121R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

So RJ. Coolie democracy: U.S.-China political and literary exchange, 1925-1955 [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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

Hodara S. Faces of a Small Southern Town. New York Times. 2015 Jan 11;WE9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Biomedical Reviews
ISSN (print)	1310-392X
ISSN (online)	1314-1929
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Medicine