How to format your references using the Journal of Biomolecular Screening citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomolecular Screening (JBS). 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

Alroy, J. The Shifting Balance of Diversity among Major Marine Animal Groups. Science 2010, 329, 1191–1194.

A journal article with 2 authors

Page, S. L.; Hawley, R. S. Chromosome Choreography: The Meiotic Ballet. Science 2003, 301, 785–789.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hao, X.; Martin-Rouault, L.; Cui, M. A Self-Adaptive Method for Creating High Efficiency Communication Channels through Random Scattering Media. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van Kasteren, S. I.; Kramer, H. B.; Jensen, H. H.; et al. Expanding the Diversity of Chemical Protein Modification Allows Post-Translational Mimicry. Nature 2007, 446, 1105–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Duchon, C.; Hale, R. Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

Natural Compounds as Drugs: Volume II; Petersen, F.; Amstutz, R., Eds.; Progress in Drug Research; Birkhäuser: Basel, 2008; Vol. 66.

A chapter in an edited book

Liao, I.-C.; Deng, Y.-S.; You, H.-C. The Emotion and Personality User Perception in Multi-Screen Interaction. In Design, User Experience, and Usability: Novel User Experiences: 5th International Conference, DUXU 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, Canada, July 17–22, 2016, Proceedings, Part II; Marcus, A., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 34–45.

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 Biomolecular Screening.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Fossils Suggest An Aquatic Plant That Bloomed Underwater Was Among First Flowering Plants https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossils-suggest-aquatic-plant-bloomed-underwater-was-among-first-flowering-plants/ (accessed Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. Weekend Settlement: Potential Benefits, Costs, and Legal Issues; GAO-02-938; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McLean, M. R. Analyzing the Relationship of Geographic Mobility and Institutional Prestige to Career Advancement of Women in Academic Medicine Pursuing Midcareer-, Senior-, or Executive-Level Administrative Positions: Implications for Career Advancement Strategies. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 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

Sisario, B. Coachella Classic. New York Times, 2016, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Biomolecular Screening
ISSN (print)	1087-0571
ISSN (online)	1552-454X
Scope