How to format your references using the Biometrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biometrics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Goymer, P. (2014) Sustainable ecosystems and society. Nature, 515, 49.

A journal article with 2 authors

He, F. and Hubbell, S.P. (2011) Species-area relationships always overestimate extinction rates from habitat loss. Nature, 473, 368–371.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Heuvel, M.G.L., de Graaff, M.P. and Dekker, C. (2006) Molecular sorting by electrical steering of microtubules in kinesin-coated channels. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312, 910–914.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Turney, C.S.M., Kershaw, A.P., Clemens, S.C., Branch, N., Moss, P.T. and Fifield, L.K. (2004) Millennial and orbital variations of El Niño/Southern Oscillation and high-latitude climate in the last glacial period. Nature, 428, 306–310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Feldmann, D. (2015) Social Movements For Good. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wang, X. and Quinn, P.J. (eds). (2010) Endotoxins: Structure, Function and Recognition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sales, E., Müller-Uri, F., Nebauer, S.G., Segura, J., Kreis, W. and Arrillaga, I. (2011) Digitalis. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Plantation and Ornamental Crops (ed C. Kole), pp. 73–112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Biometrics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) Watch The ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket Launch Live! IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-esa’s-ariane-5-rocket-launch-live/ [accessed 30 October 2018]

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

Government Accountability Office. (2007) U.S. Involvement at Major International Air Shows Principally Depends on Agencies’ Missions and Aerospace Companies’ Resources. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Emale, J.M. (2010) An Examination of How Conglomerates Impact Small-Medium Enterprises in Their Relationship. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Gustines, G.G. (2015) From ‘Rocket Girl’ to Karaoke Superstar. New York Times, MB2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Goymer, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (He and Hubbell, 2011; Goymer, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (He and Hubbell, 2011)
Three authors: (van den Heuvel, de Graaff and Dekker, 2006)
4 or more authors: (Turney et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biometrics
Abbreviation	Biometrics
ISSN (print)	0006-341X
ISSN (online)	1541-0420
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Immunology and Microbiology Applied Mathematics Statistics and Probability General Medicine