How to format your references using the Bioelectrochemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioelectrochemistry. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
P. Sassone-Corsi, Physiology. When metabolism and epigenetics converge, Science 339 (2013) 148–150.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
M. Kaeberlein, P. Kapahi, Cell signaling. Aging is RSKy business, Science 326 (2009) 55–56.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
H. Müller, A. Peters, S. Chu, A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves, Nature 463 (2010) 926–929.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
B. Kornmann, E. Currie, S.R. Collins, M. Schuldiner, J. Nunnari, J.S. Weissman, P. Walter, An ER-mitochondria tethering complex revealed by a synthetic biology screen, Science 325 (2009) 477–481.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
L.B. Castañeda, V. Arunachalam, S. Dharmaraja, Introduction to Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.
An edited book
[1]
S.B. Navathe, W. Wu, S. Shekhar, X. Du, S.X. Wang, H. Xiong, eds., Database Systems for Advanced Applications: 21st International Conference, DASFAA 2016, Dallas, TX, USA, April 16-19, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
C.M. Cuadras, Distance Based Association and Multi-Sample Tests for General Multivariate Data, in: R. Minguez, J.-M. Sarabia, N. Balakrishnan, B.C. Arnold (Eds.), Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 61–71.

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 Bioelectrochemistry.

Blog post
[1]
D. Andrew, Lamb Born With A Human-Like Face, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/lamb-born-human-face/ (accessed October 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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Aviation Safety: Additional FAA Efforts Could Enhance Safety Risk Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
L.C. Okafor-Dike, The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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
[1]
K. Kelly, A Top Goldman Veteran Gets Trump’s Attention on Jobs, Taxes and More, New York Times (2017) A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 titleBioelectrochemistry
AbbreviationBioelectrochemistry
ISSN (print)1567-5394
ScopeBiophysics
Electrochemistry
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
General Medicine

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