How to format your references using the Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki. 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. McGrayne SB. Portraits of science. Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead! Science. 2002;296:851–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Denicourt C, Dowdy SF. Medicine. Targeting apoptotic pathways in cancer cells. Science. 2004;305:1411–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Prochaska JX, Howk JC, Wolfe AM. The elemental abundance pattern in a galaxy at z = 2.626. Nature. 2003;423:57–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang K, Graf D, Li L, Wang L, Petrovic C. Anisotropic giant magnetoresistance in NbSb2. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7328.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shand MA. The Chemistry and Technology of Magnesia. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

1. Basedow J, Magnus U, Wolfrum R, editors. The Hamburg Lectures on Maritime Affairs 2011-2013. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Simonis H, Hadzic T. A Resource Cost Aware Cumulative. In: Larrosa J, O’Sullivan B, editors. Recent Advances in Constraints: 14th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2009, Barcelona, Spain, June 15-17, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 76–89.

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 Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes Have Arrived In The United States [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/zikacarrying-mosquitoes-have-arrived-in-the-united-states/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks: National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Jan. Report No.: GAO-03-114.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chavez JA. Principal stress analysis of rock fracture data from the Long Beach oil field, Los Angeles basin, California [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices Revisit Campaign Finance Issue. New York Times. 2007 Jan 20;A9.

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	Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki
Abbreviation	J. Biol. Res. (Thessalon.)
ISSN (online)	2241-5793
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