How to format your references using the Mathematical Biosciences citation style

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

[1]

S. Havlin, Epidemiology. Phone infections, Science 324 (2009) 1023–1024.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Tsai, G. Barnea, A critical period defined by axon-targeting mechanisms in the murine olfactory bulb, Science 344 (2014) 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Lyko, B.H. Ramsahoye, R. Jaenisch, DNA methylation in Drosophila melanogaster, Nature 408 (2000) 538–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Seelert, A. Poetsch, N.A. Dencher, A. Engel, H. Stahlberg, D.J. Müller, Structural biology. Proton-powered turbine of a plant motor, Nature 405 (2000) 418–419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.L. Ketring, M.B. Glaze, Atlas of Feline Ophthalmology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Beigl, S. Intille, J. Rekimoto, H. Tokuda, eds., UbiComp 2005: Ubiquitous Computing: 7th International Conference, UbiComp 2005, Tokyo, Japan, September 11-14, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Gold, Spatial Embedding and Spatial Context, in: K. Rothermel, D. Fritsch, W. Blochinger, F. Dürr (Eds.), Quality of Context: First International Workshop, QuaCon 2009, Stuttgart, Germany, June 25-26, 2009. Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 53–64.

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 Mathematical Biosciences.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Health Check: What Controls Our Sex Drive? When And Why Do We Feel Like Sex?, IFLScience (2016).

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, Responses to Questions for the Record: March 18, 2009, Hearing on ATC Modernization: Near-Term Achievable Goals, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.L. Yaudes, Change Your Category, Change Your Mind: The Mutability of Folk Models of Mental Health Disorders, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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

[1]

B. Brantley, Sam Shepard, Roaming Utterly Wild, New York Times (2017) C2.

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	Mathematical Biosciences
Abbreviation	Math. Biosci.
ISSN (print)	0025-5564
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Immunology and Microbiology Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Statistics and Probability General Medicine