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

Jayaraman KS. 2003. India budgets for boost in research. Nature. 422(6927):6

A journal article with 2 authors

Sattelberger AP, Johnson MJA. 2012. Chemistry. Uncovering the uranium-nitrogen triple bond. Science. 337(6095):652–53

A journal article with 3 authors

Milly PCD, Dunne KA, Vecchia AV. 2005. Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate. Nature. 438(7066):347–50

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Pfeifer BA, Admiraal SJ, Gramajo H, Cane DE, Khosla C. 2001. Biosynthesis of complex polyketides in a metabolically engineered strain of E. coli. Science. 291(5509):1790–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Xiu L. 2012. Nanometer Frequency Synthesis Beyond the Phase-Locked Loop. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Emmert-Streib F, Dehmer M, eds. 2009. Information Theory and Statistical Learning. Boston, MA: Springer US. X, 439 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Specht EJ, Jones HT, Calkins KG, Rhoads DH. 2015. Pasch Geometry (PSH). In Euclidean Geometry and its Subgeometries, ed HT Jones, KG Calkins, DH Rhoads, pp. 79–138. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 E. 2015. New Experiment Confirms Fundamental Symmetry In Nature. 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. 2007. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Status of the Transition to the Future Air Traffic Control System. GAO-07-784T, 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

Powers DL. 2010. Teachers’ perceptions of the effects of No Child Left Behind on classroom instruction: A cross case analysis applying Dewey’s theory of instructional methods. 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

Gordon MR. 2017. U.S.-Russia Hotline Buzzes Even After Strike on Syria. New York Times, May 25, p. A9

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)