How to format your references using the Advances in Biomarker Sciences and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Biomarker Sciences and Technology. 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 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

Burness GP. Ecology. Elephants, mice, and red herrings. Science. 2002;296(5571):1245-1247.

A journal article with 2 authors

Francesconi M, Lehner B. The effects of genetic variation on gene expression dynamics during development. Nature. 2014;505(7482):208-211.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vendrasco MJ, Wood TE, Runnegar BN. Articulated Palaeozoic fossil with 17 plates greatly expands disparity of early chitons. Nature. 2004;429(6989):288-291.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hoffman JE, Hudson EW, Lang KM, et al. A four unit cell periodic pattern of quasi-particle states surrounding vortex cores in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta. Science. 2002;295(5554):466-469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bernheim MLC. Ciba Foundation Symposium 39 - Monoamine Oxidase and Its Inhibition: Ciba/Monoamine. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.; 2008.

An edited book

Zighed DA, Tsumoto S, Ras ZW, Hacid H, eds. Mining Complex Data. Vol 165. Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansen LJ, Hoffman JR. Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change. In: Hoffman JR, ed. Climate Savvy: Adapting Conservation and Resource Management to a Changing World. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2011:55-69.

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 Advances in Biomarker Sciences and Technology.

Blog post

Fang J. New Species Of Snake Discovered In Western Australia. IFLScience. September 28, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-death-adder-species-discovered-western-australia/

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. Concurrent Development and Production of MK-12A Reentry Vehicle. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woerner LC. Complicated Grief: A Case Study of Pathological Bereavement. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University; 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

Dynarski S. So Much Student Debt, So Little Information. New York Times. March 20, 2015:BU5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Advances in Biomarker Sciences and Technology
ISSN (print)	2543-1064
Scope