How to format your references using the Bioanalysis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioanalysis. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Strunk C. Applied physics. Boosting magnetoresistance in molecular devices. Science. 306(5693), 63–64 (2004).

A journal article with 2 authors

Lewis SL, Maslin MA. Defining the anthropocene. Nature. 519(7542), 171–180 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen Q, Bae SC, Granick S. Directed self-assembly of a colloidal kagome lattice. Nature. 469(7330), 381–384 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Jones KL, Adekola AS, Bardayan DW, et al. The magic nature of (132)Sn explored through the single-particle states of (133)Sn. Nature. 465(7297), 454–457 (2010).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dant S. Losing Eden. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Berlot G, Pozzato G, editors. Hematologic Problems in the Critically Ill. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen Z, Lu M. Globalization and Regional Income Inequality in China. In: Toward Balanced Growth with Economic Agglomeration: Empirical Studies of China’s Urban-Rural and Interregional Development. Lu M (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 63–87 (2016).

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 Bioanalysis.

Blog post

Andrew E. Captive Orcas Learn To Speak Dolphin [Internet]. IFLScience (2014). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/captive-orcas-learn-communicate-their-dolphin-mates/.

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. Space Programs: NASA’s Independent Cost Estimating Capability Needs Improvement. 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

Teater MR. Reentry and reintegration: A grant proposal for formerly incarcerated women. (2009).

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

Wagner J. Encouraging Signs for the Ailing Mets. New York Times, SP5 (2017).

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	Bioanalysis
Abbreviation	Bioanalysis
ISSN (print)	1757-6180
ISSN (online)	1757-6199
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry General Medicine General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics Medical Laboratory Technology