How to format your references using the Statistics in Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistics in 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	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

Yayanos AA (2002) Are cells viable at gigapascal pressures? Science 297:295

A journal article with 2 authors

Heckman TM, Kauffmann G (2011) The coevolution of galaxies and supermassive black holes: a local perspective. Science 333:182–185

A journal article with 3 authors

Külheim C, Agren J, Jansson S (2002) Rapid regulation of light harvesting and plant fitness in the field. Science 297:91–93

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li S, Ding X, Ren J, et al (2014) Strain-controlled thermal conductivity in ferroic twinned films. Sci Rep 4:6375

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux B, van Swaay H, Megally E (2015) Private Equity 4.0. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yoshida H, Näppi JJ, Saini S (2014) Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications: 6th International Workshop, ABDI 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 14, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Multhoff JB (2016) Towards Fiber Bundle Models for Composite Pressure Vessels. In: Marcal PV, Yamagata N (eds) Design and Analysis of Reinforced Fiber Composites. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 49–65

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 Biosciences.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Worker Wasps Will Look For Another Nest Unless Their Boss Improves Working Conditions. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worker-wasps-will-look-for-another-nest-unless-their-boss-improves-working-conditions/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1978) Status of the Air Force’s Missile X Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Richardson VM (2013) In vitro thyroid hormone metabolism: Effects of nuclear receptor activation on the metabolic profiles of thyroxine in rat and human hepatocytes. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

St. John Mandel E (2016) Brave New World. New York Times BR9

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	Statistics in Biosciences
Abbreviation	Stat. Biosci.
ISSN (print)	1867-1764
ISSN (online)	1867-1772
Scope	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous) Statistics and Probability