How to format your references using the Biosafety and Health citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biosafety and Health. 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]

L.E.T. Jansen, Genetics. Sowing the seeds of centromeres, Science 335 (2012) 299–300.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.A. O’Connell, G.B. McKenna, Rheological measurements of the thermoviscoelastic response of ultrathin polymer films, Science 307 (2005) 1760–1763.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Mori, R.D. Vale, M. Tomishige, How kinesin waits between steps, Nature 450 (2007) 750–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.K. Ho, J.S. Kim, J.H. Burroughes, H. Becker, S.F. Li, T.M. Brown, F. Cacialli, R.H. Friend, Molecular-scale interface engineering for polymer light-emitting diodes, Nature 404 (2000) 481–484.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Sabol, Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

S. Rzoska, A. Drozd-Rzoska, V. Mazur, eds., Metastable Systems under Pressure, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.A. Buzdin, S.A. Lukyanov, Stem-Loop Oligonucleotides as Hybridization Probes and Their Practical Use in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, in: A.A. Buzdin, S.A. Lukyanov (Eds.), Nucleic Acids Hybridization Modern Applications, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 85–96.

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 Biosafety and Health.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Will Superfast ‘Quantum’ Computers Mean The End Of Unbreakable Encryption?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/will-superfast-quantum-computers-mean-the-end-of-unbreakable-encryption/ (accessed October 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Strategic Bombers: Logistics Decisions Impede B-1B Readiness and Supportability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.J. Danna, Learning-Assisted Market-Based Optimization for Truck Task Scheduling, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2014.

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]

J. Anderson, The Documentary Left Looks to the Right, New York Times (2017) AR15.

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	Biosafety and Health
ISSN (print)	2590-0536
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