How to format your references using the Burns Open citation style

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

Alonzo SH. Evolution. An unexpected cost of sex. Science 2015;347:948–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vabulas RM, Hartl FU. Protein synthesis upon acute nutrient restriction relies on proteasome function. Science 2005;310:1960–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Storch NI, Anderson KR, Lai D. Chaotic dynamics of stellar spin in binaries and the production of misaligned hot Jupiters. Science 2014;345:1317–21.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lawniczak MKN, Emrich SJ, Holloway AK, Regier AP, Olson M, White B, et al. Widespread divergence between incipient Anopheles gambiae species revealed by whole genome sequences. Science 2010;330:512–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bromfield R. Doing Therapy with Children and Adolescents with Asperger Syndrome. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Licata I. Quantum Potential: Physics, Geometry and Algebra. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Konstantinidis KT, Stackebrandt E. Defining Taxonomic Ranks. In: Rosenberg E, DeLong EF, Lory S, Stackebrandt E, Thompson F, editors. The Prokaryotes: Prokaryotic Biology and Symbiotic Associations, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 229–54.

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 Burns Open.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Plant Fungi Impact How Monarch Butterflies Fight Disease. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fungi-root-plant-impact-how-monarch-butterflies-fight-disease/ (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. Telecommunications: Data Gathering Weaknesses In FCC’s Survey Of Information on Factors Underlying Cable Rate Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Valeika SR. The epidemiology of varicella under a two -dose vaccination strategy: Results of a mathematical transmission model with a novel strategy of sensitivity analysis. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

Schmidt MS, Haberman M, Apuzzo M. Wary of Mueller, Trump’s Team Is Investigating His Investigators. New York Times 2017:A1.

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	Burns Open
ISSN (print)	2468-9122
Scope

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