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

Heremans JP. Thermoelectricity: The ugly duckling. Nature. 2014;508(7496):327-328.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowman AF, Crabb BS. The Plasmodium falciparum genome--a blueprint for erythrocyte invasion. Science. 2002;298(5591):126-128.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kahn SE, Hull RL, Utzschneider KM. Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature. 2006;444(7121):840-846.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Henzler-Wildman KA, Lei M, Thai V, Kerns SJ, Karplus M, Kern D. A hierarchy of timescales in protein dynamics is linked to enzyme catalysis. Nature. 2007;450(7171):913-916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu SC, Delbruck T, Indiveri G, Whatley A, Douglas R. Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

Abu el Ata N. Solving the Dynamic Complexity Dilemma: Predictive and Prescriptive Business Management: Answering the Need for a New Paradigm. (Perks MJ, ed.). Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Wheatly MG, Gao Y, Gillen CM. Epithelial Calcium Transport in Crustaceans: Adaptation to Intrinsic and Extrinsic Stressors. In: Gerencser GA, ed. Epithelial Transport Physiology. Humana Press; 2010:73-90.

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. Speedy But “Bearded” Ladies Get No Love From Male Lizards. IFLScience. January 8, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/speedy-bearded-ladies-get-no-love-male-lizards/

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. Should the Bureau of Indian Affairs Continue To Provide Educational Services to Indian Children? U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mersch C. Campus-Based Drunk-Driving Intervention Program: A Grant Proposal Project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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

Yablonsky L. Road Scholar. New York Times. May 18, 2008:M226.

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