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. Kiick KL. Materials science. Polymer therapeutics. Science. 2007;317:1182–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Landskron K, Ozin GA. Periodic mesoporous dendrisilicas. Science. 2004;306:1529–32.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Grigoryan G, Reinke AW, Keating AE. Design of protein-interaction specificity gives selective bZIP-binding peptides. Nature. 2009;458:859–64.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mitchell DG, Perry ME, Hamilton DC, Westlake JH, Kollmann P, Smith HT, et al. Dust grains fall from Saturn’s D-ring into its equatorial upper atmosphere. Science. 2018;362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bower JA. Statistical Methods for Food Science. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Guntenspergen GR, editor. Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vidal-Rosset J. Does Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem Prove that Truth Transcends Proof? In: Benthem J van, Heinzmann G, Rebuschi M, Visser H, editors. The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2006. p. 51–73.

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. Carpineti A. Astronomers Have Discovered The Oldest Stars In Our Galaxy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/discovery-ancient-stars-sheds-light-primordial-hypernovae/

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. Emergency Communications: Improved Procurement of Land Mobile Radios Could Enhance Interoperability and Cut Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Oct. Report No.: GAO-17-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pugh AN. Adoption is an option: A personal narrative [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Crow K. Old Wish List: More for Pupils; New List: Keep What We Have. New York Times. 2002 Jan 20;146.

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