How to format your references using the Biologics in Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biologics in Therapy. 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. Sethmann I. Materials science. Creating flexible calcite fibers with proteins. Science. 2013;339:1281–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ford R, Spafford EH. Computer science. Happy birthday, dear viruses. Science. 2007;317:210–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Paggi M, Pohrt R, Popov VL. Partial-slip frictional response of rough surfaces. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5178.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Flood AH, Stoddart JF, Steuerman DW, Heath JR. Chemistry. Whence molecular electronics? Science. 2004;306:2055–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hessel V, Löwe H, Müller A, Kolb G. Chemical Micro Process Engineering. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Brody H, Meghani Z, Greenwald K, editors. Michael Ryan’s Writings on Medical Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Panin I. Purity for multipliers. In: Tandon R, editor. Algebra and Number Theory: Proceedings of the Silver Jubilee Conference University of Hyderabad. Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency; 2005. p. 66–89.

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 Biologics in Therapy.

Blog post

1. Davis J. How Do Deadly Mites Trick Honeybees? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-deadly-mites-trick-honeybees/

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. Industrial Policy: Case Studies in the Japanese Experience. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Oct. Report No.: ID-83-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Lowden MR. Genesis of end-to-end chromosome fusions [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2008.

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. Schwirtz M, Rashbaum WK. Facing Critics, City Jails Chief Is Set to Resign. New York Times. 2017 May 12;A1.

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	Biologics in Therapy
Abbreviation	Biol. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2195-5840
ISSN (online)	2190-9164
Scope