How to format your references using the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering. 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

Ganem D. 2001. Virology. The X files--one step closer to closure. Science. 294(5550):2299–2300

A journal article with 2 authors

McSweeney S, Fromme P. 2014. Crystallography: Sources of inspiration. Nature. 505(7485):620–21

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayes M, Scarlata C, Siana B. 2011. Central powering of the largest Lyman-α nebula is revealed by polarized radiation. Nature. 476(7360):304–7

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tylewicz S, Petterle A, Marttila S, Miskolczi P, Azeez A, et al. 2018. Photoperiodic control of seasonal growth is mediated by ABA acting on cell-cell communication. Science. 360(6385):212–15

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy R. 2010. Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Murphy MP, Dukelow F, eds. 2016. The Irish Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Change. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK. XXV, 337 p. 26 illus., 5 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Draskoczy B. 2010. Fitness Distance Correlation and Search Space Analysis for Permutation Based Problems. In Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 10th European Conference, EvoCOP 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2010. Proceedings, ed P Cowling, P Merz, pp. 47–58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2016. This Photo Of Someone’s Shiny Legs Is An Illusion, And We’re Freaking Out. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 2005. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Provision of Charitable Assistance. GAO-06-297T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ademiluyi CA. 2010. Felony disenfranchisement and how it contributes to the Black electorate. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Saslow L. 2009. Proposed Island School Budgets: A Story of Trade-Offs. New York Times, May 17, p. LI5

In-text citations

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

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	Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Biomed. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1523-9829
ISSN (online)	1545-4274
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Medicine (miscellaneous)