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. Koen D. Nuts and bolts. Soft skills. Nature. 2005;435:126.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. O’Neill HSC, Jenner FE. The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts. Nature. 2012;491:698–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Turk MJ, Abel T, O’Shea B. The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions. Science. 2009;325:601–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nishita M, Hashimoto MK, Ogata S, Laurent MN, Ueno N, Shibuya H, et al. Interaction between Wnt and TGF-beta signalling pathways during formation of Spemann’s organizer. Nature. 2000;403:781–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Wuestenberg K. Clinical Small Animal Care. Ames, Iowa, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Ahonen P. Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence. Alahuhta P, Daskala B, Delaitre S, Hert PD, Lindner R, Maghiros I, et al., editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Vick A, Vydyanathan A, Safi T, Gritsenko K. Perioperative Considerations in Pharmacology. In: Kaye AD, Kaye AM, Urman RD, editors. Essentials of Pharmacology for Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. p. 87–99.

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. Taub B. Cannabis Studies Called Into Question As Research Weed Is Too Weak. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Review of the Upward Bound Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Mar. Report No.: HRD-83-19.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Jujhavarapu S. Real Time Driver Drowsiness Detection [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Kitsantonis N. Debt Relief, With Pain, Is on the Way For Greece. New York Times. 2017 May 2;B3.

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