How to format your references using the Experimental Biomedical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Biomedical Research. 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]

Brakenhoff RH. Cancer. Another NOTCH for cancer. Science 2011;333(6046):1102–1103.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Addiscott T, Brookes P. Nitrogen cycle: what governs nitrogen loss from forest soils? Nature 2002;418(6898):604; discussion 604.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yang X, Zhou Y, Xiao M. Entangler via electromagnetically induced transparency with an atomic ensemble. Sci. Rep. 2013;3:3479.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Briseno AL, Mannsfeld SCB, Ling MM, Liu S, Tseng RJ, Reese C et al. Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays. Nature 2006;444(7121):913–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Alhabeeb MJ. Mathematical Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Chen C, Larsen R, eds. Library and Information Sciences: Trends and Research. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chen L, Zeng Z. Which Symmetric Homogeneous Polynomials Can Be Proved Positive Semi-definite by Difference Substitution Method? In: Kapur D, ed. Computer Mathematics: 8th Asian Symposium, ASCM 2007, Singapore, December 15-17, 2007. Revised and Invited Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008:57–71.

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 Experimental Biomedical Research.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Audi Has Made Diesel From Water And Carbon Dioxide. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/audi-make-diesel-water-and-carbon-dioxide/. 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. Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pierce ZD. The relationship between nursing instructors’ transformational leadership behaviors in the clinical learning environment and associate degree nursing students’ communication apprehension. 2016.

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]

Goldstein J. Mayor’s Call Did Not Prompt Pastor’s Release, Police Say. New York Times. February 12, 2014:A20.

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	Experimental Biomedical Research
ISSN (online)	2618-6454
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