How to format your references using the Bioelectricity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioelectricity (BIOE). 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

Christe KO. Obituary: Neil Bartlett (1932-2008). Nature 2008;455(7210):182.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hathaway DH, Rightmire L. Variations in the Sun’s meridional flow over a solar cycle. Science 2010;327(5971):1350–1352.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhao W, Luo J, Jiao S. Comprehensive characterization of cancer subtype associated long non-coding RNAs and their clinical implications. Sci Rep 2014;4:6591.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Segal E, Fondufe-Mittendorf Y, Chen L, et al. A genomic code for nucleosome positioning. Nature 2006;442(7104):772–778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechni, Laackmann K, Balthaus H, et al. Taschenbuch Für Den Tunnelbau 2015. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany; 2015.

An edited book

Juth N. The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine: Serving Society or Serving the Patient? (Munthe C. ed). International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Hamoudi M, Quesnel Y, Dyment J, et al. Aeromagnetic and Marine Measurements. In: Geomagnetic Observations and Models. (Mandea M, Korte M. eds) Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2011; pp. 57–103.

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 Bioelectricity.

Blog post

Luntz S. Doubt Cast On The Acceleration Of The Expansion Of The Universe. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/doubt-cast-on-the-acceleration-of-the-expansion-of-the-universe/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Stronger Actions Needed To Recover $730 Million in Defaulted National Direct Student Loans. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fan H-T. Design of Delta Operator Based Decision Feedback Equalizer for High-Speed Backplane Data Communication. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 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

Barron J. Waiting for a Pastor, Not a Prince. New York Times 2016;A21.

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	Bioelectricity
ISSN (print)	2576-3105
ISSN (online)	2576-3113
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