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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Eisenstein M. Microarrays: quality control. Nature 2006;442(7106):1067–1070.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jakob M, Hilaire J. Climate science: Unburnable fossil-fuel reserves. Nature 2015;517(7533):150–152.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werner SC, Ody A, Poulet F. The source crater of martian shergottite meteorites. Science 2014;343(6177):1343–1346.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Said M, Cappiello C, Devaney JM, et al. Genomics in premature infants: a non-invasive strategy to obtain high-quality DNA. Sci Rep 2014;4:4286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klee L. International Construction Contract Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2015.

An edited book

Rodríguez MA, Cruz I, Levashkin S, et al., (eds). GeoSpatial Semantics: First International Conference, GeoS 2005, Mexico City, Mexico, November 29-30, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Angelopoulos S, Lucarelli G, Nguyen KT. Primal-Dual and Dual-Fitting Analysis of Online Scheduling Algorithms for Generalized Flow Time Problems. In: Algorithms - ESA 2015: 23rd Annual European Symposium, Patras, Greece, September 14-16, 2015, Proceedings. (Bansal N, Finocchi I. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2015; pp. 35–46.

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

Davis J. Letter Penned By Charles Darwin Returned To The Smithsonian, 30 Years After It Was Stolen. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/letter-penned-by-charles-darwin-returned-to-the-smithsonian-thirty-years-after-it-was-stolen/ [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. National Science Foundation: Better Use of Existing Resources Could Improve Program Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Forget MA. Tumor Angiogenesis Is All Tied up in Tie2-Expressing Macrophages. Doctoral dissertation. Ohio State University: Columbus, OH; 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

Roach M. Bodies at War. New York Times 2016;D1.

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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