How to format your references using the BioData Mining citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioData Mining. 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

1. Bianchi DW. Pregnancy: Prepare for unexpected prenatal test results. Nature. 2015;522:29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stapel DA, Lindenberg S. Coping with chaos: how disordered contexts promote stereotyping and discrimination. Science. 2011;332:251–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu W, Wen X, Wang ZL. Taxel-addressable matrix of vertical-nanowire piezotronic transistors for active and adaptive tactile imaging. Science. 2013;340:952–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Krol KM, Kamboj SK, Curran HV, Grossmann T. Breastfeeding experience differentially impacts recognition of happiness and anger in mothers. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Scott K. Sustainable and Green Electrochemical Science and Technology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. Ncube M. Global Growth and Financial Spillovers and the South African Macro-economy. Gumata N, Ndou E, editors. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bui QT, Pham QD, Deville Y. Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program. In: Simonis H, editor. Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 45–54.

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 BioData Mining.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Dramatic Photographs Of Hawaii’s Rising Lava Lake Levels [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/dramatic-photographs-of-hawaiis-rising-lava-lake-levels/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Cost Information on the Desegregation of the School Systems in Mobile County and Wilcox County, Alabama. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Oct. Report No.: B-164031(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cagle West M. Effective software engineering leadership for development programs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2010.

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

1. Greenhouse L. Advice to New Chief From the Lesser of Two Equals: Call Me Nino. New York Times. 2005 Nov 9;A20.

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	BioData Mining
Abbreviation	BioData Min.
ISSN (online)	1756-0381
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics