How to format your references using the Bioanalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioanalysis. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Hovers E. Archaeology: Tools go back in time. Nature. 521(7552), 294–295 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibson DG, Venter JC. Synthetic biology: Construction of a yeast chromosome. Nature. 509(7499), 168–169 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois RL, Beiko RG, Ragan MA. Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature. 421(6920), 217 (2003).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Workman CT, Mak HC, McCuine S, et al. A systems approach to mapping DNA damage response pathways. Science. 312(5776), 1054–1059 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Vreeswijk M, Broersen J, Schurink G. Mindfulness and Schema Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kyosev Y, editor. Recent Developments in Braiding and Narrow Weaving. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Shany M, Geva E. Cognitive, Language, and Literacy Development in Socio-culturally Vulnerable School Children – The Case of Ethiopian Israeli Children. In: Current Issues in Bilingualism: Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives. Leikin M, Schwartz M, Tobin Y (Eds.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 77–117 (2012).

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 Bioanalysis.

Blog post

Hale T. The White House Starts Twitter Account To Spread Awareness Of Climate Change [Internet]. IFLScience (2015). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/white-house-starts-twitter-account-spread-awareness-climate-change/.

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. Aircraft Certification: New FAA Approach Needed to Meet Challenges of Advanced Technology. 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

Mitchell SF. Life-review therapy: A prevention program for the elderly who are experiencing life transitions. A grant proposal. (2009).

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

Gluck JP. Regretting My Animal Research. New York Times, SR7 (2016).

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	Bioanalysis
Abbreviation	Bioanalysis
ISSN (print)	1757-6180
ISSN (online)	1757-6199
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry General Medicine General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Medical Laboratory Technology