How to format your references using the Bioelectronics in Medicine citation style

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

Caldwell M. Careers in behavioral science. Neuromarketing careers. Science 316(5827), 1060–1061 (2007).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang Z, Becker H. Ratios of S, Se and Te in the silicate Earth require a volatile-rich late veneer. Nature 499(7458), 328–331 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

Overby CL, Hripcsak G, Shen Y. Estimating heritability of drug-induced liver injury from common variants and implications for future study designs. Sci. Rep. 4, 5762 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Tapper AR, McKinney SL, Nashmi R et al. Nicotine activation of alpha4* receptors: sufficient for reward, tolerance, and sensitization. Science 306(5698), 1029–1032 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Costa F, Gautier C, Labouré E, Revol B. Electromagnetic Compatibility in Power Electronics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013).

An edited book

Vos R. Introduction to Transonic Aerodynamics. (Volume 110). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Zohdi TI, Wriggers P. A Basic Finite Element Implementation. In: An Introduction to Computational Micromechanics: Corrected Second Printing. Zohdi TI, Wriggers P (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 63–84 (2005).

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 Bioelectronics in Medicine.

Blog post

Davis J. ‘What It’s Like To Live In A Town That Needs Its Own Polar Bear Jail’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/churchill-living-worlds-largest-land-carnivore0/.

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. State Department: The July 2006 Evacuation of American Citizens from Lebanon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lewis PA. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, (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

Powell M. Zen Phil Exits The Garden. The Knicks Will Endure, (2017).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioelectronics in Medicine
ISSN (print)	2059-1500
ISSN (online)	2059-1519
Scope