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

Csatho, B.M. Climate Science: A History of Greenland’s Ice Loss. Nature 2015, 528, 341–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bhalla, N.; Dernburg, A.F. A Conserved Checkpoint Monitors Meiotic Chromosome Synapsis in Caenorhabditis Elegans. Science 2005, 310, 1683–1686.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vergassola, M.; Villermaux, E.; Shraiman, B.I. “Infotaxis” as a Strategy for Searching without Gradients. Nature 2007, 445, 406–409.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Valenzuela, S.O.; Oliver, W.D.; Berns, D.M.; Berggren, K.K.; Levitov, L.S.; Orlando, T.P. Microwave-Induced Cooling of a Superconducting Qubit. Science 2006, 314, 1589–1592.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu, P.; Stănescu, N.-D.; Pandrea, N. Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118614563.

An edited book

Euzenat, J. Ontology Matching; Shvaiko, P., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; ISBN 9783540496113.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, C.; Xia, C.; Wang, H.; Li, X. On the Spatial-Temporal Reachability of DTNs. In Frontiers in Internet Technologies: Second CCF Internet Conference of China, ICoC 2013, Zhangjiajie, China, July 10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers; Su, J., Zhao, B., Sun, Z., Wang, X., Wang, F., Xu, K., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; pp. 40–49 ISBN 9783642539589.

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. No, Sunscreen Will Not Give You Cancer Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/no-sunscreen-will-not-give-you-cancer/ (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 Information Technology: OMB and Agencies Need to More Effectively Implement Major Initiatives to Save Billions of Dollars; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2013;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Janpengpen, A. Monitoring and Forecasting Biosolids Odors at Prior Lime and Post Lime Addition in Wastewater Treatment Plants. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD, 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

Pilon, M.; Longman, J. Elite Marathoner’s Failed Test Is Another Setback for Kenya. New York Times 2014, D1.

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
Scope