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

Vaughan DG. Oceans. How does the Antarctic ice sheet affect sea level rise? Science. 308(5730), 1877–1878 (2005).

A journal article with 2 authors

Yewdell JW, Ince WL. Virology. Frameshifting to PA-X influenza. Science. 337(6091), 164–165 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

He Y, Xue G-H, Fu J-Z. Fabrication of low cost soft tissue prostheses with the desktop 3D printer. Sci. Rep. 4, 6973 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sharon E, Roman B, Marder M, Shin G-S, Swinney HL. Mechanics. Buckling cascades in free sheets. Nature. 419(6907), 579 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chappell D. Building Contract Claims. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Rittger H, editor. Interventional Cardiology in the Elderly. 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bombile M. Visual Servoing Based Positioning and Object Tracking on Humanoid Robot. In: New Trends in Networking, Computing, E-learning, Systems Sciences, and Engineering. Elleithy K, Sobh T (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 19–27 (2015).

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

Andrew D. Miniature Black Holes May Be Hitting Earth Once Every 1,000 Years [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/miniature-black-holes-may-be-hitting-earth-once-every-1000-years/.

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. Attrition of Scientists at Three Regulatory Agencies. 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

Libman M. A policy analysis of the Penal Code Section 186.20-186.33: California Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act. (2012).

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

Crow K. The Newest Tower: Working 24/7. New York Times, 1414 (2001).

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