How to format your references using the Biofabrication citation style

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

[1]

Rothemund P W K 2006 Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns Nature 440 297–302

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bouchon M and Karabulut H 2008 The aftershock signature of supershear earthquakes Science 320 1323–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Frank M J, Seeberger L C and O’reilly R C 2004 By carrot or by stick: cognitive reinforcement learning in parkinsonism Science 306 1940–3

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Todorov A, Mandisodza A N, Goren A and Hall C C 2005 Inferences of competence from faces predict election outcomes Science 308 1623–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kenett R S, Zacks S and Amberti D 2013 Modern Industrial Statistics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Lehavi A 2016 Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Lin J-L and Yan H-S 2016 Modern Reconstruction Research Decoding the Mechanisms of Antikythera Astronomical Device ed H-S Yan (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 63–84

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 Biofabrication.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2014 Beetle Inspired Material Draws Water From Arid Air IFLScience

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 2001 Highway Infrastructure: FHWA’s Model for Estimating Highway Needs Has Been Modified for State-Level Planning (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Nespoli G 2017 Impact of Supervisor Support on Employee Job Satisfaction Among Fundraising Staff Within Higher Education Doctoral dissertation (Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University)

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]

Kepner T 2016 Heavier Bullpen Use Unlikely Outside Postseason New York Times B14

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	Biofabrication
Abbreviation	Biofabrication
ISSN (print)	1758-5082
ISSN (online)	1758-5090
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine