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

Bourzac K (2015) Cell imaging: Beyond the limits. Nature 526:S50-4

A journal article with 2 authors

Bartek J, Hodny Z (2014) Ageing: Old blood stem cells feel the stress. Nature 512:140–141

A journal article with 3 authors

Attri AK, Kumar U, Jain VK (2001) Formation of ozone by fireworks. Nature 411:1015

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Whiten A, McGrew WC, Aiello LC, et al (2010) Studying extant species to model our past. Science 327:410; author reply 410-1

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joule JA, Mills K (2012) Heterocyclic Chemistry at a Glance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sasaki R, Qing S, Okamoto E, Yoshiura H (2005) Security and Privacy in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing: IFIP TC11 20th International Information Security Conference May 30 – June 1, 2005, Chiba, Japan. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Finiukova VO, Stolyar AM (2011) Asymptotic Integration of One Narrow Plate Problem. In: Altenbach H, Eremeyev VA (eds) Shell-like Structures: Non-classical Theories and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–62

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

Andrews R (2016) UN Declares That Internet Restrictions Violate Human Rights. 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 (1990) Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Recent Controversy Between NHTSA and Consumer Group. 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

Heatlie JM (2015) Effects of Simulation on Senior Nursing Students’ Patient Safety Competence: A Quantitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University

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

Kanter J, Castle S (2016) E.U. Leaders Talk Tough on ‘Brexit.’ New York Times A8

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