How to format your references using the Biometrics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biometrics. 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	Download the output style file
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

Kanwisher, N. (2006) Neuroscience. What’s in a face? Science (New York, N.Y.), 311, 617–618.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hor, H. and Tafti, M. (2009) Physiology. How much sleep do we need? Science (New York, N.Y.), 325, 825–826.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oh, J.S., Susor, A. and Conti, M. (2011) Protein tyrosine kinase Wee1B is essential for metaphase II exit in mouse oocytes. Science (New York, N.Y.), 332, 462–465.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Janata, P., Birk, J.L., Van Horn, J.D., Leman, M., Tillmann, B. and Bharucha, J.J. (2002) The cortical topography of tonal structures underlying Western music. Science (New York, N.Y.), 298, 2167–2170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stacey, W.M. (2012) Fusion Plasma Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Allen, R.B. and Lee, W.G. (eds). (2006) Biological Invasions in New Zealand. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, T., Yuan, Y. and Yoo, J.J. (2010) Cell Source for Tissue and Organ Printing. Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. (eds R. Narayan),, T. Boland), & Y.-S. Lee), pp. 57–69. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Biometrics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) How Fast Are You Moving Through The Universe? IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-fast-are-we-moving-through-universe/ [accessed 30 October 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. (1985) A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to: ADP, IRM and Telecommunications. 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

Fortenbery, N.R. (2012) Regulation of Natural Killer Cells: SHIP-1, 2B4, and Immunomodulation by Lenalidomide. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Hardy, M. (2017) Texas Naturalists Also See A Border Wall as a Threat. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kanwisher, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kanwisher, 2006; Hor and Tafti, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hor and Tafti, 2009)
Three authors: (Oh, Susor and Conti, 2011)
4 or more authors: (Janata et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biometrics
Abbreviation	Biometrics
ISSN (print)	0006-341X
ISSN (online)	1541-0420
Scope	General Agricultural and Biological Sciences General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Immunology and Microbiology Applied Mathematics Statistics and Probability General Medicine