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

Barnett WS (2011) Effectiveness of early educational intervention. Science 333:975–978

A journal article with 2 authors

Silverman N, Paquette N (2008) Immunology. The right resident bugs. Science 319:734–735

A journal article with 3 authors

Unterreithmeier QP, Weig EM, Kotthaus JP (2009) Universal transduction scheme for nanomechanical systems based on dielectric forces. Nature 458:1001–1004

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Moore CB, John M, James IR, et al (2002) Evidence of HIV-1 adaptation to HLA-restricted immune responses at a population level. Science 296:1439–1443

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coussy O (2005) Poromechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Vadivelu N, Kaye AD, Berger JM (2013) Essentials of Palliative Care. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Droste-Franke B, Paal BP, Rehtanz C, et al (2012) Technologies for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power. In: Paal BP, Rehtanz C, Sauer DU, et al (eds) Balancing Renewable Electricity: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 83–142

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Discover New Type Of Ant-Decapitation Behavior In Tiny Flies. In: IFLScience. 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 (1972) Training America’s Labor Force: Potential, Progress, and Problems of Vocational Education. 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

Vernold EL (2008) Special education teacher resiliency: What keeps teachers in the field? 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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Boone. New York Times C10

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