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

Grenier, I.A. (2000) Gamma-ray astronomy. A needle in a cosmic haystack. Nature, 404, 344–345.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hardison, R.C. and Blobel, G.A. (2013) Genetics. GWAS to therapy by genome edits? Science (New York, N.Y.), 342, 206–207.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, D., Son, S.-W. and Jeong, H. (2014) Large-scale quantitative analysis of painting arts. Scientific reports, 4, 7370.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jenkyns, H.C., Forster, A., Schouten, S. and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2004) High temperatures in the Late Cretaceous Arctic Ocean. Nature, 432, 888–892.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pande, A. and Wolshon, B. (2015) Traffic Engineering Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Keller, C., Wiberg, M., Ågerfalk, P.J. and Eriksson Lundström, J.S.Z. (eds). (2012) Nordic Contributions in IS Research: Third Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2012, Sigtuna, Sweden, August 17–20, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Vrontou, S. (2016) The Peripheral Processing of Pleasant Touch in Mice. Affective Touch and the Neurophysiology of CT Afferents (eds H. Olausson),, J. Wessberg),, I. Morrison), & F. McGlone), pp. 69–83. Springer, New York, NY.

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) Explainer: What Is 4D Printing? IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/explainer-what-4d-printing/ [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. (1986) Deactivating Research Vessels: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Use of Private Ships. 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

Ren, W. (2013) The Portrayal of Risk-Taking Behaviors in Traffic on the Prime-Time Television Series. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007) Justices May Rule on Right To ‘Keep and Bear Arms.’ New York Times, A2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grenier, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Grenier, 2000; Hardison and Blobel, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hardison and Blobel, 2013)
Three authors: (Kim, Son and Jeong, 2014)
4 or more authors: (Jenkyns 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