How to format your references using the Biopreservation and Biobanking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biopreservation and Biobanking (BIO). 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

Chisholm SW. Stirring times in the Southern Ocean. Nature 2000;407(6805):685–687.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dill KA, MacCallum JL. The protein-folding problem, 50 years on. Science 2012;338(6110):1042–1046.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stassun KG, Mathieu RD, Valenti JA. Discovery of two young brown dwarfs in an eclipsing binary system. Nature 2006;440(7082):311–314.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Scholte E-J, Ng’habi K, Kihonda J, et al. An entomopathogenic fungus for control of adult African malaria mosquitoes. Science 2005;308(5728):1641–1642.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandler C. The Science of ADHD. Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK; 2010.

An edited book

Steck A. Brain and Mind: Subjective Experience and Scientific Objectivity. 1st ed. 2016. (Steck B. ed). Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Klein A, Nikkah G. Neural Transplantation and Restoration of Motor Behaviour in Parkinson‘s Disease. In: Samii’s Essentials in Neurosurgery. (Tatagiba M. ed) Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 35–48.

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 Biopreservation and Biobanking.

Blog post

Luntz S. Candidate for Closest Exoplanet Reported. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/candidate-closest-exoplanet-reported/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Weather Satellites: The U.S. Geostationary Satellite Program Is at a Crossroad. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cubarrubia AP. Exploring the Influence of External Standards of Institutional Effectiveness on Program Assessment in Student Affairs. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 2009.

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

Saslow L. Trash Law Is Meant To Deter Identity Theft. New York Times 2006;LI13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biopreservation and Biobanking
ISSN (print)	1947-5535
ISSN (online)	1947-5543
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