How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematical Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical Biology. 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

Kubas GJ (2006) Chemistry. Breaking the H2 marriage and reuniting the couple. Science 314:1096–1097

A journal article with 2 authors

Ciesla FJ, Sandford SA (2012) Organic synthesis via irradiation and warming of ice grains in the solar nebula. Science 336:452–454

A journal article with 3 authors

Hacker J, Hentschel U, Dobrindt U (2003) Prokaryotic chromosomes and disease. Science 301:790–793

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Parnell J, Boyce AJ, Hurst A, et al (2013) Long term geological record of a global deep subsurface microbial habitat in sand injection complexes. Sci Rep 3:1828

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott S (2017) AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

An edited book

Lal SK (ed) (2010) Molecular Biology of the SARS-Coronavirus. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bistarelli S, Rossi F, Santini F (2014) Enumerating Extensions on Random Abstract-AFs with ArgTools, Aspartix, ConArg2, and Dung-O-Matic. In: Bulling N, Torre L van der, Villata S, et al. (eds) Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 15th International Workshop, CLIMA XV, Prague, Czech Republic, August 18-19, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 70–86

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 Mathematical Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) Explainer: Where Did Zika Virus Come From And Why Is It A Problem In Brazil? In: IFLScience. 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

Government Accountability Office (1972) GAO Role in the Evaluation of Federally Funded Education Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Rahimi RM (2014) Investigation of Porosity Evolution and Orthotropic Axes on Anisotropic Materials. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Murphy MJO (2014) Friday File. New York Times C32

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kubas 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kubas 2006; Ciesla and Sandford 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Ciesla and Sandford 2012)
Three or more authors: (Parnell et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Biology
Abbreviation	J. Math. Biol.
ISSN (print)	0303-6812
ISSN (online)	1432-1416
Scope	Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation