How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. 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

Hughson, F. M. (2013). Neuroscience. Chaperones that SNARE neurotransmitter release. Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6118), 406–407.

A journal article with 2 authors

Siders, C. W., & Cavalleri, A. (2003). Materials science. Creating transient crystal structures with light. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5619), 591–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matzke, M., Matzke, A. J., & Kooter, J. M. (2001). RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1080–1083.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Roch, N., Florens, S., Bouchiat, V., Wernsdorfer, W., & Balestro, F. (2008). Quantum phase transition in a single-molecule quantum dot. Nature, 453(7195), 633–637.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Das, J. C. (2017). Understanding Symmetrical Components for Power System Modeling. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pereira, M. F., & Shulika, O. (Eds.). (2011). Terahertz and Mid Infrared Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhou, J., Lu, Y., & Lundqvist, K. (2014). A TASM-Based Requirements Validation Approach for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems. In L. George & T. Vardanega (Eds.), Reliable Software Technologies – Ada-Europe 2014: 19th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Paris, France, June 23-27, 2014. Proceedings (pp. 43–57). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. (2017, February 10). Endangered Saiga Antelopes Struck Down By Another Mass Die-Off. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1974). Free Shuttle Service for Commuting Employees on Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana (No. B-159695). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

De Anda, B. (2012). Factors that contribute to the stigma of mental illness (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Dominus, S. (2017, May 11). Not Just Us. New York Times, p. MM34.

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	EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Abbreviation	EURASIP J. Bioinform. Syst. Biol.
ISSN (online)	1687-4153
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology Computer Science Applications Computational Mathematics