How to format your references using the Biopreservation and Biobanking citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biopreservation and Biobanking (BIO). 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

McGowan K. Masterclass: The gathering brainstorm. Nature 2011;478(7368):S19-20.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranero CR, von Huene R. Subduction erosion along the Middle America convergent margin. Nature 2000;404(6779):748–752.

A journal article with 3 authors

Creed M, Pascoli VJ, Lüscher C. Addiction therapy. Refining deep brain stimulation to emulate optogenetic treatment of synaptic pathology. Science 2015;347(6222):659–664.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang L, Yu P, Zhao L, et al. B and N isolate-doped graphitic carbon nanosheets from nitrogen-containing ion-exchanged resins for enhanced oxygen reduction. Sci Rep 2014;4:5184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lippold JC. Welding Metallurgy and Weldability. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ; 2015.

An edited book

Gherardelli F, (ed). Complex Analysis. C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Borcoci E, Pinto A, Mehaoua A, et al. Resource Management and Signalling Architecture of a Hybrid Multicast Service for Multimedia Distribution. In: Management of Converged Multimedia Networks and Services: 11th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2008, Samos Island, Greece, September 22-26, 2008. Proceedings. (Pavlou G, Ahmed T, Dagiuklas T. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2008; pp. 39–51.

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 Biopreservation and Biobanking.

Blog post

Andrew E. Would You Wear Clothes Made From Fish By-Products? IFLScience; 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tidal-vision-leads-wave-turning-fish-products-clothes/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Social Security: Telephone Access Enhanced at Field Offices Under Demonstration Project. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chen G. Essays On Using Weather Derivatives In Dairy Production. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH; 2005.

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

Kishkovsky S. With Orthodoxy’s Revival in Russia, Religious Media Also Rise. New York Times 2008;B8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biopreservation and Biobanking
ISSN (print)	1947-5535
ISSN (online)	1947-5543
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