How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Wootton, J. T. (2001). Local interactions predict large-scale pattern in empirically derived cellular automata. Nature, 413(6858), 841–844.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedo, C. M., & Whitehouse, M. J. (2002). Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth’s earliest life. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5572), 1448–1452.

A journal article with 3 authors

Imaizumi, K., Shih, J. Y., & Farris, H. E. (2013). Global hyper-synchronous spontaneous activity in the developing optic tectum. Scientific reports, 3, 1552.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Mao, C., LaBean, T. H., Relf, J. H., & Seeman, N. C. (2000). Logical computation using algorithmic self-assembly of DNA triple-crossover molecules. Nature, 407(6803), 493–496.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Collins, D. (2008). Magic in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Wang, Y., & Zhang, X. (Eds.). (2012). Internet of Things: International Workshop, IOT 2012, Changsha, China, August 17-19, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 312). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Koltay, P., Ducrée, J., & Zengerle, R. D. (2006). Micro-Fluidic Platforms. In G. A. Urban (Ed.), BioMEMS (pp. 139–165). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 10). New Species Of Human Discovered In South Africa. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-human-ancestor-likely-ritualistically-disposed-its-dead/

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. (2009). Aviation Security: TSA Has Completed Key Activities Associated with Implementing Secure Flight, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Mitigate Risks (No. GAO-09-292). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams, K. (2014). Riot Bias: A Textual Analysis of Pussy Riot’s Coverage in Russian and American Media (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2005, July 21). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Foreign Interference Condemned. New York Times, p. A6.

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	EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Abbreviation	EURASIP J. Bioinform. Syst. Biol.
ISSN (online)	1687-4153
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics