How to format your references using the BioData Mining citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioData Mining. 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

1. Macneil JS. NEUROSCIENCE: Neural Net Contest Draws Online Crowd. Science. 2000;290:2233b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hoffman KA, Singer BS. Magnetic source separation in Earth’s outer core. Science. 2008;321:1800.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Indjeian VB, Stern BM, Murray AW. The centromeric protein Sgo1 is required to sense lack of tension on mitotic chromosomes. Science. 2005;307:130–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Grigsby CL, Ho Y-P, Lin C, Engbersen JFJ, Leong KW. Microfluidic preparation of polymer-nucleic acid nanocomplexes improves nonviral gene transfer. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3155.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Roeder T. Managing Project Stakeholders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Pippan R, Gumbsch P, editors. Multiscale Modelling of Plasticity and Fracture by Means of Dislocation Mechanics. Vienna: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kavousifard A, Samet H. A Novel Method Based on Modified Shuffled Frog Leaping Algorithm and Artificial Neural Network for Power System Load Prediction. In: Ryżko D, Rybiński H, Gawrysiak P, Kryszkiewicz M, editors. Emerging Intelligent Technologies in Industry. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 35–46.

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 BioData Mining.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Five Ways To Keep Your Home Warm This Winter [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/five-ways-keep-your-home-warm-winter/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. School Finance: Options for Improving Measures of Effort and Equity in Title I. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Aug. Report No.: HEHS-96-142.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Guedez A. Developing Correlations for Velocity Models in Vertical Transverse Isotropic Media: Bakken Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2017.

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

1. Sugin L. The Furtive Tax. New York Times. 2013 Apr 14;SR7.

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	BioData Mining
Abbreviation	BioData Min.
ISSN (online)	1756-0381
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics