How to format your references using the The Journal of Experimental Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 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

Gangopadhyay, S.S. 2013. Systemic administration of follistatin288 increases muscle mass and reduces fat accumulation in mice. Sci. Rep. 3:2441.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crespi, B., and S. Springer. 2003. Ecology. Social slime molds meet their match. Science. 299:56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J., L. Bai, and M.D. Wang. 2013. Transcription under torsion. Science. 340:1580–1583.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Prockter, L.M., C.M. Ernst, B.W. Denevi, C.R. Chapman, J.W. Head 3rd, C.I. Fassett, W.J. Merline, S.C. Solomon, T.R. Watters, R.G. Strom, G. Cremonese, S. Marchi, and M. Massironi. 2010. Evidence for young volcanism on Mercury from the third MESSENGER flyby. Science. 329:668–671.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pesavento, L., and S. Smoleny. 2015. A Trader’s Guide to Financial Astrology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ntambi, J.M. ed. . 2016. Hepatic De Novo Lipogenesis and Regulation of Metabolism. Springer International Publishing, Cham. XI, 305 p. 35 illus., 5 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Kaye, A.D., and J.L. Weinkauf. 2012. The Cocaine-Addicted Patient. In Perioperative Addiction: Clinical Management of the Addicted Patient. E.O. Bryson and E.A.M. Frost, editors. Springer, New York, NY. 95–109.

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 The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. MIT’s New Robo-Cheetah Bounds Across Terrain Untethered. IFLScience.

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. 1996. Information Technology Investment: Agencies Can Improve Performance, Reduce Costs, and Minimize Risks. 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

Simonsen, A.E. 2010. Risk and resilience: Girls’ experiences navigating space and relationships in a secure residential facility. George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Greenhouse, L. 2008. In a 6-to-3 Vote, Justices Uphold A Voter ID Law. New York Times. A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gangopadhyay, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Gangopadhyay, 2013; Crespi and Springer, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Crespi and Springer, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Prockter et al., 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of Experimental Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Med.
ISSN (print)	0022-1007
ISSN (online)	1540-9538
Scope	Immunology Immunology and Allergy