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

Ma Z. Materials science. An electronic second skin. Science. 333(6044), 830–831 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Raiborg C, Stenmark H. Cell biology. A helix for the final cut. Science. 331(6024), 1533–1534 (2011).

A journal article with 3 authors

Peng L, Song Z-G, Jiao S-C. Efficacy analysis of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on rare non-small cell lung cancer patients harboring complex EGFR mutations. Sci. Rep. 4, 6104 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Colman-Lerner A, Gordon A, Serra E, et al. Regulated cell-to-cell variation in a cell-fate decision system. Nature. 437(7059), 699–706 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pietersen W. Strategic Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dittmar T, Zänker KS, editors. Cell Fusion in Health and Disease. 1st ed. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Genovese A, Piuri V, Scotti F. Innovative Methods for Touchless and Less-Constrained Palmprint Recognition. In: Touchless Palmprint Recognition Systems. Piuri V, Scotti F (Eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, 111–155 (2014).

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

Carpineti A. Dark Energy May Not Actually Exist [Internet]. IFLScience (2017). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/dark-energy-may-not-actually-exist/.

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. Organizing the Federal Communications Commission for Greater Management and Regulatory Effectiveness. 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

Lamb BK. A Comparison of Carbon Dioxide Emissions at a Roundabout and a Signalized Intersection in a Mid-Sized City. (2015).

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

Vecsey G. Five Years Later, A Different Outcome. New York Times, B14 (2011).

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