How to format your references using the EBioMedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EBioMedicine. 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

[1]

Robinson A. A century of puzzling. Nature 2008;453:990–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Mesgarani N, Chang EF. Selective cortical representation of attended speaker in multi-talker speech perception. Nature 2012;485:233–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Szostak JW, Bartel DP, Luisi PL. Synthesizing life. Nature 2001;409:387–90.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Calford MB, Chino YM, Das A, Eysel UT, Gilbert CD, Heinen SJ, et al. Neuroscience: rewiring the adult brain. Nature 2005;438:E3; discussion E3-4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gavin H, Porter T. Female Aggression. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Corchado E, Kurzyński M, Woźniak M, editors. Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems: 6th International Conference, HAIS 2011, Wroclaw, Poland, May 23-25, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. vol. 6679. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Hyslop-Margison E, Savarese J l. The Corporatization of the University. In: Mitchell RC, Moore SA, editors. Politics, Participation & Power Relations: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Critical Citizenship in the Classroom and Community, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012, p. 51–62.

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 EBioMedicine.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Spacetime Foam Discovery Proves Einstein Right. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/if-spacetime-has-bubbles-theyre-smaller-we-thought/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. Issues Concerning the Future Operation of the Space Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Torres A. An understanding of the first-generation community college student: A strengths and assets approach. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Yablonsky BYL. Body of Evidence. New York Times 2008:M2216.

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	EBioMedicine
Abbreviation	EBioMedicine
ISSN (print)	2352-3964
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