How to format your references using the BioScientific Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioScientific Review. 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

Carucci D. Know thine enemy. Nature. 2004;430(7002):944-945.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawson RI, Chiang E. A class of warm Jupiters with mutually inclined, apsidally misaligned close friends. Science. 2014;346(6206):212-216.

A journal article with 3 authors

Conard NJ, Malina M, Münzel SC. New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany. Nature. 2009;460(7256):737-740.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Burresi M, van Oosten D, Kampfrath T, et al. Probing the magnetic field of light at optical frequencies. Science. 2009;326(5952):550-553.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinquis A. Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB®. ISTE; 2008.

An edited book

Sharma JN, ed. Recent Developments in the Regulation of Kinins. Vol 69. Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Fields GS. Should Poverty and Inequality Measures be Combined? In: Janvry A de, Kanbur R, eds. Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke. Springer US; 2006:67-74.

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 BioScientific Review.

Blog post

Andrew E. Despite The Headlines, Dementia Epidemic May Not Actually Be Getting Worse. IFLScience. August 24, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/despite-headlines-dementia-epidemic-may-not-actually-be-getting-worse/

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. Federal Student Aid: Progress in Integrating Pell Grant and Direct Loan Systems and Processes, but Critical Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

He H. Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University; 2006.

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

Schmidt MS. Trump Appears Unlikely to Hinder Comey’s Testimony About Russia Investigation. New York Times. June 3, 2017:A14.

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	BioScientific Review
ISSN (print)	2663-4198
ISSN (online)	2663-4201
Scope