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. Perkel JM. Annotating the scholarly web. Nature. 2015;528:153–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Théry M, Casas J. Predator and prey views of spider camouflage. Nature. 2002;415:133.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ehrsson HH, Spence C, Passingham RE. That’s my hand! Activity in premotor cortex reflects feeling of ownership of a limb. Science. 2004;305:875–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tomaru Y, Toyoda K, Suzuki H, Nagumo T, Kimura K, Takao Y. New single-stranded DNA virus with a unique genomic structure that infects marine diatom Chaetoceros setoensis. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bersuker IB. Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Park JJ (jong H, Pan Y, Kim C-S, Yang Y, editors. Future Information Technology: FutureTech 2014. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Brinkworth JF, Sterner KN. Toll-Like Receptor Function and Evolution in Primates. In: Brinkworth JF, Pechenkina K, editors. Primates, Pathogens, and Evolution. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 91–116.

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. New Hominin Species Discovered in Ethiopia [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-hominin-species-discovered-ethiopia/

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 Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to Be More Robust. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011 Jul. Report No.: GAO-11-722.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Leesombatpiboon P. Thailand’s energy security: Strategic Petroleum Reserve and its economic impacts [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 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. Loomis G. Rossini and Contemporaries, Snuggly at Home in the Black Forest. New York Times. 2012 Jul 24;0.

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

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