How to format your references using the Biosafety and Health citation style

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

J.-J. Hublin, Anthropology. How to build a Neandertal, Science 344 (2014) 1338–1339.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Silverman, N. Paquette, Immunology. The right resident bugs, Science 319 (2008) 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Halevy, S.E. Peters, W.W. Fischer, Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle, Science 337 (2012) 331–334.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.T. Smith, R.N. Comans, N.A. Beresford, S.M. Wright, B.J. Howard, W.C. Camplin, Chernobyl’s legacy in food and water, Nature 405 (2000) 141.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.C. Thiselton, 1 & 2 Thessalonians: Through the Centuries, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. Tokunaga, A. Ortega, eds., Large-Scale Knowledge Resources. Construction and Application: Third International Conference on Large-Scale Knowledge Resources, LKR 2008, Tokyo, Japan, March 3-5, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.F. Webb, J.C. Montgomery, J. Mogdans, Bioacoustics and the Lateral Line System of Fishes, in: J.F. Webb, R.R. Fay, A.N. Popper (Eds.), Fish Bioacoustics: With 81 Illustrations, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 145–182.

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 Biosafety and Health.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Japan Wants To Put A Giant Solar Farm In Space, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/japan-wants-put-giant-solar-farm-space/ (accessed 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Gas Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Observations on the Integrity Management Program and 7-Year Reassessment Requirement, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O. Chima-Okereke, The distinct VPS35 mutant, env1, exhibits unique protein mislocalization and processing phenotype, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

A.J. Rubin, P. Kingsley, P. Karasz, Attack in Spain Fits Larger Plot, New York Times (2017) 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	Biosafety and Health
ISSN (print)	2590-0536
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