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:

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 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

[1]

K. Bourzac, Electronics: Back to analogue, Nature 483 (2012) S34-6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.J. Ackland, D. Butler, Pack formation in cycling and orienteering, Nature 413 (2001) 127.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Maffione, A. Morris, M.W. Anderson, Recognizing detachment-mode seafloor spreading in the deep geological past, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2336.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.Y. Hui, L.-J. Su, O.Y. Chen, Y.-T. Chen, T.-M. Liu, H.-C. Chang, Wide-field imaging and flow cytometric analysis of cancer cells in blood by fluorescent nanodiamond labeling and time gating, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Pease, Optimize Your Greatest Asset-Your People, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

D. Zeng, Cloud Networking for Big Data, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Małachowski, Multiple Criteria Decision Support System for Tender Consortium Building Within the Cluster Organization, in: P. Różewski, D. Novikov, N. Bakhtadze, O. Zaikin (Eds.), New Frontiers in Information and Production Systems Modelling and Analysis: Incentive Mechanisms, Competence Management, Knowledge-Based Production, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 105–117.

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]

J. Fang, Regular Pot Use is Bad for Young Brains, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/regular-pot-use-bad-young-brains/ (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, FTS 2001 Implementation Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

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]

The following scouting report on the Oakland Athletics was prepared by Tom Kelly, The Manager of The, with the editorial assistance of Michael Martinez, This Team Flattens Opponents, New York Times (1988) D17.

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 title	Bioelectrochemistry
Abbreviation	Bioelectrochemistry
ISSN (print)	1567-5394
Scope	Biophysics Electrochemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Medicine