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

Lynch M. Genetics: Feedforward loop for diversity. Nature. 2015;523(7561):414-416.

A journal article with 2 authors

Morton JJL, Mølmer K. Quantum information: Spin memories in for the long haul. Nature. 2015;517(7533):153-154.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dragert G, Wang K, James TS. A silent slip event on the deeper Cascadia subduction interface. Science. 2001;292(5521):1525-1528.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Giampieri G, Dougherty MK, Smith EJ, Russell CT. A regular period for Saturn’s magnetic field that may track its internal rotation. Nature. 2006;441(7089):62-64.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Strachman D, Bookbinder R. Fund of Funds Investing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

Saminger-Platz S, Mesiar R, eds. On Logical, Algebraic, and Probabilistic Aspects of Fuzzy Set Theory. Vol 336. 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Agarwal R, O’Regan D, Saker S. Lyapunov Inequalities. In: O’Regan D, Saker S, eds. Dynamic Inequalities On Time Scales. Springer International Publishing; 2014:175-214.

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

Andrew E. There Are Also Drawbacks To Being Bilingual. IFLScience. Published April 26, 2016. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/there-are-also-drawbacks-being-bilingual/

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Customs Is Making Good Progress. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang T. Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego; 2013.

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

Winerip M, Schwirtz M, Gebeloff R. For Blacks Facing Parole, Signs of Broken System in New York. New York Times. December 4, 2016:A1.

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

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