How to format your references using the Journal of Biomedical Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomedical Science. 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	Download the output style file
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. Taylor WR. A “periodic table” for protein structures. Nature. 2002;416:657–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Reddy GV, Meyerowitz EM. Stem-cell homeostasis and growth dynamics can be uncoupled in the Arabidopsis shoot apex. Science. 2005;310:663–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Velarde E, Ezcurra E, Anderson DW. Seabird diets provide early warning of sardine fishery declines in the Gulf of California. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1332.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Zioutas K, Hoffmann DHH, Dennerl K, Papaevangelou T. Physics. What is dark matter made of? Science. 2004;306:1485–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lastovetsky A. Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

1. Hörmann K. Surgery for Sleep Disordered Breathing. Verse T, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gentili G, Di Napoli M. Digit II, III – Wrist, Elbow; Digit II, III – Wrist. In: Di Napoli M, editor. The Median Nerve: Sensory Conduction Studies. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 19–25.

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 Science.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Natural Cancer Remedies: Sorting Fact From Fiction [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/natural-cancer-remedies-sorting-fact-fiction/. 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. Highway Technology: The Structure for Conducting Highway Pavement Research. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Nov. Report No.: PEMD-88-2BR.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Robinson DE. How personality traits and job satisfaction influence service quality in housing agencies [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella 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

1. Billard M. Nothing Up His Sleeve, but on It. New York Times. 2010 May 13;E6.

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 Biomedical Science
Abbreviation	J. Biomed. Sci.
ISSN (online)	1423-0127
Scope	Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Molecular Biology General Medicine Biochemistry, medical Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Pharmacology (medical)