How to format your references using the BioRisk citation style

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

Guarente L (2006) Sirtuins as potential targets for metabolic syndrome. Nature 444: 868–874.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bednarek P, Osbourn A (2009) Plant-microbe interactions: chemical diversity in plant defense. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 746–748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Carbotte SM, Small C, Donnelly K (2004) The influence of ridge migration on the magmatic segmentation of mid-ocean ridges. Nature 429: 743–746.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Utada AS, Lorenceau E, Link DR, Kaplan PD, Stone HA, Weitz DA (2005) Monodisperse double emulsions generated from a microcapillary device. Science (New York, N.Y.) 308: 537–541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heritier S, Cantoni E, Copt S, Victoria-Feser M-P (2009) Robust Methods in Biostatistics: Heritier/Robust Methods in Biostatistics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Woyshner C (Ed.) (2014) Leaders in Social Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, XII, 264 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Hernández-Salmerón M, Romero-Ávila D (2015) Empirical Results. In: Romero-Ávila D (Ed.), Convergence in Output and Its Sources Among Industrialised Countries: A Cross-Country Time-Series Perspective. SpringerBriefs in Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 25–44.

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 BioRisk.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) Orange Juice Is The Biggest Con Of Your Life. IFLScience. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orange-juice-is-the-biggest-con-of-your-life/ (October 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 (1990) Consolidated Student Loans: Borrowers Benefit but Costs to Them and the Government Grow. 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

Rehman JL (2012) Rape as religious terrorism and genocide the 1971 war between East and West Pakistan. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach

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

Hubbard B (2017) Instead of Hero’s Welcome, Treason Charges. New York Times: A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guarente 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Guarente 2006, Bednarek and Osbourn 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bednarek and Osbourn 2009)
Three or more authors: (Utada et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	BioRisk
ISSN (print)	1313-2644
ISSN (online)	1313-2652
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