How to format your references using the Acta Biomaterialia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Biomaterialia. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

K. Garber, Science careers. Translational institute unites unlikely partners at Penn, Science 317 (2007) 968–969.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Fallani, M. Inguscio, Physics. Controlling cold-atom conductivity, Science 322 (2008) 1480–1481.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Alboussière, R. Deguen, M. Melzani, Melting-induced stratification above the Earth’s inner core due to convective translation, Nature 466 (2010) 744–747.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

V. Trouet, J. Esper, N.E. Graham, A. Baker, J.D. Scourse, D.C. Frank, Persistent positive North Atlantic oscillation mode dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly, Science 324 (2009) 78–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.K. Adhikari, Variational Principles and the Numerical Solution of Scattering Problems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

C.L. Sanders, ed., Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Gardner, H. Sturgeon, L. Jones, S. Surlin, Body Editing: Dance Biofeedback Experiments in Apperception, in: M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 49–60.

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 Acta Biomaterialia.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Artificial Magnetic Shield Could Help In Terraforming Mars, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/artificial-magnetic-shield-could-help-in-terraforming-mars/ (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, Aviation Security: Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System Faces Significant Implementation Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.A. Jaramillo, Morphology of ferromagnetic thin films on nanosphere templates, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

M. Pilon, Hands Speak Louder Than Words, New York Times (2014) B11.

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	Acta Biomaterialia
Abbreviation	Acta Biomater.
ISSN (print)	1742-7061
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine