How to format your references using the Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (SBR). 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

Moltz, J. C. (2011), “Technology: Asia’s space race,” Nature, 480, 171–173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sanguinetti, M. C., and Tristani-Firouzi, M. (2006), “hERG potassium channels and cardiac arrhythmia,” Nature, 440, 463–469.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khalil, A. M., Cambier, J. C., and Shlomchik, M. J. (2012), “B cell receptor signal transduction in the GC is short-circuited by high phosphatase activity,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 336, 1178–1181.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Luo, J.-L., Tan, W., Ricono, J. M., Korchynskyi, O., Zhang, M., Gonias, S. L., Cheresh, D. A., and Karin, M. (2007), “Nuclear cytokine-activated IKKalpha controls prostate cancer metastasis by repressing Maspin,” Nature, 446, 690–694.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fogel, D. B., Liu, D., and Keller, J. M. (2016), Fundamentals of Computational Intelligence, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Winterbottom, A., and Tesfaye, F. (eds.) (2016), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: The Modern Period, Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

A chapter in an edited book

Fliss, D. M., and Gil, Z. (2016), “Open Surgical Approaches to the Paranasal Sinuses,” in Atlas of Surgical Approaches to Paranasal Sinuses and the Skull Base, ed. Z. Gil, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 109–137.

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 Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016), “What The World’s Oldest Calculator Tells Us About The Ancient Greeks’ View Of The Universe,” IFLScience, IFLScience.

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 (1999), Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Avoiding Disruption of Critical Services Will Require Additional Work, 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

Bleicher, J. (2008), “Scenario methods as a means for enhancing organizational learning: A Delphi study,” Doctoral dissertation, Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix.

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

Shear, M. D., and Glanz, J. (2016), “Trump Says U.S. Should ‘Expand’ Nuclear Ability,” New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moltz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Moltz 2011; Sanguinetti and Tristani-Firouzi 2006).

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

Two authors: (Sanguinetti and Tristani-Firouzi 2006)
Three or more authors: (Luo et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research
Abbreviation	Stat. Biopharm. Res.
ISSN (online)	1946-6315
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