How to format your references using the Bioengineering citation style

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

Logothetis, N.K. Bold Claims for Optogenetics. Nature 2010, 468, E3-4; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Butterworth, B.; Kovas, Y. Understanding Neurocognitive Developmental Disorders Can Improve Education for All. Science 2013, 340, 300–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogers, J.A.; Lagally, M.G.; Nuzzo, R.G. Synthesis, Assembly and Applications of Semiconductor Nanomembranes. Nature 2011, 477, 45–53.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stoll, M.; Cowley, A.W., Jr; Tonellato, P.J.; Greene, A.S.; Kaldunski, M.L.; Roman, R.J.; Dumas, P.; Schork, N.J.; Wang, Z.; Jacob, H.J. A Genomic-Systems Biology Map for Cardiovascular Function. Science 2001, 294, 1723–1726.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser, W.; Heiner, E.; Elk, K. Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- Und Vielteilchenphysik; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005; ISBN 9783527603381.

An edited book

Internet – Technical Development and Applications; Tkacz, E., Kapczynski, A., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; Vol. 64; ISBN 9783642050183.

A chapter in an edited book

Chantara, W.; Ho, Y.-S. Object Searching with Combination of Template Matching. In Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Gwangju, South Korea, September 16-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part I; Ho, Y.-S., Sang, J., Ro, Y.M., Kim, J., Wu, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 32–41 ISBN 9783319240749.

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 Bioengineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E. How Smartphone Use Is Changing The Way Thumbs and Brains Communicate Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-smartphone-use-changing-way-thumbs-and-brains-communicate/ (accessed on 30 October 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 U.S. Customs Service: Better Targeting of Airline Passengers for Personal Searches Could Produce Better Results; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tuquero, J.M. A Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis of Support Services for Adult Learners in Distance Learning Programs. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2010.

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

Wagner, J. Magic Brews for Mets in Late Innings, Then Deserts Them Yet Again. New York Times 2017, D3.

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	Bioengineering
Abbreviation	Bioengineering (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2306-5354
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