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 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]

Mazzarello P 2000 What dreams may come? Nature 408 523

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ranen M C and Jacobsen S B 2006 Barium isotopes in chondritic meteorites: implications for planetary reservoir models Science 314 809–12

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Komatsu K, Murata M and Murata Y 2005 Encapsulation of molecular hydrogen in fullerene C60 by organic synthesis Science 307 238–40

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Liu Z, Lee H, Xiong Y, Sun C and Zhang X 2007 Far-field optical hyperlens magnifying sub-diffraction-limited objects Science 315 1686

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bullock J 2017 Wireshark® for Security Professionals (Indianapolis, Indiana: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Wanner A and Sandhaus R A 2016 Alpha-1 Antitrypsin: Role in Health and Disease (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Holzinger A, Dorner S, Födinger M, Valdez A C and Ziefle M 2010 Chances of Increasing Youth Health Awareness through Mobile Wellness Applications HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure: 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, USAB 2010, Klagenfurt, Austria, November 4-5, 2010. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed G Leitner, M Hitz and A Holzinger (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 71–81

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 California Blue Whales Bounce Back From Whaling 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 2010 Environmental Satellites: Planning Required to Mitigate Near-term Risks and Ensure Long-term Continuity (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]

Mullis J 2009 The impact of the media on public opinion of the police Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Johnson G 2015 In Chernobyl, Life Finds a Way New York Times 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	Biofabrication
Abbreviation	Biofabrication
ISSN (print)	1758-5082
ISSN (online)	1758-5090
Scope	Biochemistry Biotechnology Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine