How to format your references using the BioDrugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioDrugs. 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. Larson G. Anthropology. How wheat came to Britain. Science. 2015;347:945–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Collins FS, Manolio TA. Merging and emerging cohorts: necessary but not sufficient. Nature. 2007;445:259.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Yang R, Willett SD, Goren L. In situ low-relief landscape formation as a result of river network disruption. Nature. 2015;520:526–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Snyder J, Slusky JS, Cava RJ, Schiffer P. How “spin ice” freezes. Nature. 2001;413:48–51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Plantin J-C. Participatory Mapping. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Azar AT, Vaidyanathan S, editors. Advances in Chaos Theory and Intelligent Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Karlsson H, Kontush A, James RW. Functionality of HDL: Antioxidation and Detoxifying Effects. In: von Eckardstein A, Kardassis D, editors. High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 207–28.

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 BioDrugs.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Gene Therapy Boosts Deaf Guinea Pigs’ Cochlear Implants [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gene-therapy-boosts-deaf-guinea-pigs’-cochlear-implants/

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. Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s Role in Major Airport Noise Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Apr. Report No.: RCED-00-98.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Maitland J. Differences in Perceived Organizational Justice Based Upon Overall Performance Appraisal Ratings [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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. Gordon MR. ISIS Holdouts in Raqqa Nearly Hemmed In by American-Backed Forces. New York Times. 2017 Jul 2;A4.

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	BioDrugs
Abbreviation	BioDrugs
ISSN (print)	1173-8804
ISSN (online)	1179-190X
Scope	Biotechnology General Medicine Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology