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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Cummer SA. Applied physics. Selecting the direction of sound transmission. Science. 2014;343(6170):495-496.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morriswood B, Warren G. Cell biology. Stalemate in the Golgi battle. Science. 2013;341(6153):1465-1466.

A journal article with 3 authors

Skipper M, Weiss U, Gray N. Plasticity. Nature. 2010;465(7299):703.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim TT, Oh SS, Park HS, et al. Optical activity enhanced by strong inter-molecular coupling in planar chiral metamaterials. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5864.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor R. Handbook of Retinal Screening in Diabetes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

Wantzen KM, Rothhaupt KO, Mörtl M, Cantonati M, -Tóth LG, Fischer P, eds. Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes. Vol 204. Springer Netherlands; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Granström JG. Assumption and Substitution. In: Granström JG, ed. Treatise on Intuitionistic Type Theory. Springer Netherlands; 2011:107-154.

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 D. DNA Reveals A New History Of The First Australians. IFLScience. September 22, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dna-reveals-a-new-history-of-the-first-australians/

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. Customs Automation: Observations on Selected Automated Commercial System Modules. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ayres R. Optimization of a Novel Oxy-Michael Ugi-Smiles Reaction. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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

Wilson M. In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger. New York Times. October 10, 2017:A20.

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
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