How to format your references using the Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (SBR). 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

Papaloizou, J. C. B. (2008), “Astronomy. Planetary system formation,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321, 777–778.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kristensen, P., and Bjerkedal, T. (2007), “Explaining the relation between birth order and intelligence,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 316, 1717.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pham, T. C. T., Kim, H. S., and Yoon, K. B. (2011), “Growth of uniformly oriented silica MFI and BEA zeolite films on substrates,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 334, 1533–1538.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, X., Arai, S., Song, X., Reichart, D., Du, K., Pascual, G., Tempst, P., Rosenfeld, M. G., Glass, C. K., and Kurokawa, R. (2008), “Induced ncRNAs allosterically modify RNA-binding proteins in cis to inhibit transcription,” Nature, 454, 126–130.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cousley, R. R. J. (2013), The Orthodontic Mini-Implant Clinical Handbook, Chichester, West Sussex UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kirkwood, C. (ed.) (2012), The Persons in Relation Perspective: In Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning, International Issues in Adult Education, Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Beccuti, M., Franceschinis, G., Kaâniche, M., and Kanoun, K. (2009), “Multi-level Dependability Modeling of Interdependencies between the Electricity and Information Infrastructures,” in Critical Information Infrastructure Security: Third International Workshop, CRITIS 2008, Rome, Italy, October13-15, 2008. Revised Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, eds. R. Setola and S. Geretshuber, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 48–59.

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 Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014), “Watch A Praying Mantis Eat The Face Off A Fly,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Available athttps://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-listen-praying-mantis-eat-face-fly/.

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 (1994), Transportation Infrastructure: Benefits of Traffic Control Signal Systems Are Not Being Fully Realized, 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

Dominguez, Y. C. (2014), “Recruitment, training, and support for foster parents of children birth to 4 years: A grant proposal,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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), “World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Last Regional Governor’s Election,” New York Times, A7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Papaloizou 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kristensen and Bjerkedal 2007; Papaloizou 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kristensen and Bjerkedal 2007)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Abbreviation	Stat. Biopharm. Res.
ISSN (online)	1946-6315
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