diff --git a/biomed-central.csl b/biomed-central.csl
index 8a60aa3f3c..f2a6c19768 100644
--- a/biomed-central.csl
+++ b/biomed-central.csl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <link href="http://www.zotero.org/styles/biomed-central" rel="self"/>
     <link href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/authors/instructions/researcharticle#formatting-references" rel="documentation"/>
     <!-- This documentation link contains incorrect information about the number of authors for supplemental info; it was confirmed directly by BMC that the correct max number of authors to list is 30, see also https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/issues/190
-	 <link href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/authors/instprepdoc#refs" rel="documentation"/>
+         <link href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/authors/instprepdoc#refs" rel="documentation"/>
     -->
     <author>
       <name>Robert M Flight</name>
@@ -52,7 +52,14 @@
     </group>
   </macro>
   <macro name="container-title">
-    <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
+    <choose>
+      <if type="article-journal" match="any">
+        <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic" form="short" strip-periods="true"/>
+      </if>
+      <else>
+        <text variable="container-title" font-style="italic"/>
+      </else>
+    </choose>
   </macro>
   <macro name="title">
     <choose>
@@ -148,7 +155,7 @@
             <!-- This will hopefully deal with supplements at least reasonably well -->
             <choose>
               <if is-numeric="issue">
-	      </if>
+              </if>
               <else>
                 <text variable="issue" prefix="(" suffix=")"/>
               </else>