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. Edery I. Circadian rhythms. Temperatures to communicate by. Science. 2010;330:329–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bell GI, Polonsky KS. Diabetes mellitus and genetically programmed defects in beta-cell function. Nature. 2001;414:788–91.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Jermiin LS, Poladian L, Charleston MA. Evolution. Is the “Big Bang” in animal evolution real? Science. 2005;310:1910–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu B, Hu X, Xu H, Luo W, Sun Y, Huang Y. Encapsulation of MnO nanocrystals in electrospun carbon nanofibers as high-performance anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Lißner K, Rug W. Der Eurocode 5 für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung und Konstruktion von Holzbauten. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2016.

An edited book

1. Xhafa F, Caballé S, Abraham A, Daradoumis T, Juan Perez AA, editors. Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Faletra FF, de Castro S, Pandian NG, Kronzon I, Nesser H-J, Ho SY. The Aortic Valve and the Aorta. In: Castro S, Pandian NG, Kronzon I, Nesser H-J, Yen Ho S, editors. Atlas of Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography. London: Springer; 2010. p. 47–62.

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. Luntz S. Even Buying Online, Choices Can Embarrass Us [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/even-buying-online-choices-can-embarrass-us/

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. Space Station: U.S. Life-Cycle Funding Requirements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jun. Report No.: T-NSIAD-98-212.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nguyen M. Therapeutic groups for adults with mental illness and their caregivers: A grant proposal [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. Pilon M, Mather V. To Avoid I.O.C. Cut, a Sport Changed. New York Times. 2013 Feb 14;B13.

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