How to format your references using the BioDrugs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BioDrugs. 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. Marshall E. BIOTECHNOLOGY:Disease Group Invests in Do-It-Yourself Drugs. Science. 2000;288:1715b–7b.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Du C, Xiao M. Cu2O nanoparticles synthesis by microplasma. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7339.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. McCauley E, Nelson WA, Nisbet RM. Small-amplitude cycles emerge from stage-structured interactions in Daphnia-algal systems. Nature. 2008;455:1240–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cubukcu E, Aydin K, Ozbay E, Foteinopoulou S, Soukoulis CM. Electromagnetic waves: Negative refraction by photonic crystals. Nature. 2003;423:604–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Flood JM. Wiley Gaap 2015. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Brazier FMT, Nieuwenhuis K, Pavlin G, Warnier M, Badica C, editors. Intelligent Distributed Computing V: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Intelligent Distributed Computing – IDC 2011, Delft, The Netherlands – October 2011. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kull M, Flach P. Novel Decompositions of Proper Scoring Rules for Classification: Score Adjustment as Precursor to Calibration. In: Appice A, Rodrigues PP, Santos Costa V, Soares C, Gama J, Jorge A, editors. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 68–85.

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 BioDrugs.

Blog post

1. Hale T. The Second Case Of “Down’s Syndrome” In A Chimp Has Been Reported By Scientists [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-second-case-of-downs-syndrome-in-a-chimp-has-been-reported-by-scientists/. 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. Analysis of NASA’s Fiscal Year 1983 Budget Request for Research and Development To Determine the Amount That Supports DOD’s Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982 Apr. Report No.: MASAD-82-33.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bono S. Perceptions of Psychological Abuse and the Impact of Blame and Gender Role Beliefs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2013.

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. Hubbard B, Schmitt E. State Crumbling, ISIS Is Reclaiming Insurgent Roots. New York Times. 2017 Jul 8;A1.

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	BioDrugs
Abbreviation	BioDrugs
ISSN (print)	1173-8804
ISSN (online)	1179-190X
Scope	Biotechnology General Medicine Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology