How to format your references using the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 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

Georghiou L. Europe’s research system must change. Nature. 2008;452:935–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Goldblatt C, Zahnle KJ. Faint young Sun paradox remains. Nature. 2011;474:E3-4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA. Global efforts in structural genomics. Science. 2001;294:89–92.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bourrier V, Lovis C, Beust H, Ehrenreich D, Henry GW, Astudillo-Defru N, Allart R, Bonfils X, Ségransan D, Delfosse X, Cegla HM, Wyttenbach A, Heng K, Lavie B, Pepe F. Orbital misalignment of the Neptune-mass exoplanet GJ 436b with the spin of its cool star. Nature. 2018;553:477–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon L. Control of Biological and Drug-Delivery Systems for Chemical, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Dec 14, 2013.

An edited book

Stephanidis C, editor. HCI International 2016 – Posters’ Extended Abstracts: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17-22, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XXXI, 571 p. 232 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Li X, Gao S. Effects of Vertical Wind Shear. In: Gao S editor. Precipitation Modeling and Quantitative Analysis. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

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 Biomedical Materials Research Part A.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Dimming Dwarf Binary Discovered By Astronomers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dimming-dwarf-binary-discovered-by-astronomers/

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. Summary of a GAO Conference: Helping California Youths with Disabilities Transition to Work or Postsecondary Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-759SP.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krutsinger R. Evaluation of Grassland Restoration Success in Illinois Using Indicators of Ecosystem Function [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014.

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

Southall A. 2 Charged With Murder After a Buried Body Is Found in New Jersey. New York Times. 2016;

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	Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A
Abbreviation	J. Biomed. Mater. Res. A
ISSN (print)	1549-3296
ISSN (online)	1552-4965
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials Ceramics and Composites Metals and Alloys