How to format your references using the Biomacromolecules citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomacromolecules. 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	Download the output style file
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)

May, M. The Spine. Nature 2013, 503 (7475), S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Li, L.; Wang, Y. What Drives the Aerosol Distribution in Guangdong--the Most Developed Province in Southern China? Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5972.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Keith, D. W.; Parson, E.; Morgan, M. G. Research on Global Sun Block Needed Now. Nature 2010, 463 (7280), 426–427.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

(1)

McQuatters-Gollop, A.; Reid, P. C.; Edwards, M.; Burkill, P. H.; Castellani, C.; Batten, S.; Gieskes, W.; Beare, D.; Bidigare, R. R.; Head, E.; Johnson, R.; Kahru, M.; Koslow, J. A.; Pena, A. Is There a Decline in Marine Phytoplankton? Nature 2011, 472 (7342), E6-7; discussion E8-9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Biswas, S.; Ray, P.; Chakrabarti, B. K. Statistical Physics of Fracture, Breakdown, and Earthquake; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

(1)

Yu, F. Three-Dimensional Model Analysis and Processing; Luo, H., Lu, Z., Wang, P., Eds.; Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 0.

A chapter in an edited book

(1)

Chiarugi, F.; Colantonio, S.; Emmanouilidou, D.; Moroni, D.; Salvetti, O. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing for Decision Support in Heart Failure. In Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry: Third International Conference, MDA 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 14, 2008 Proceedings; Perner, P., Salvetti, O., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp 38–51.

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 Biomacromolecules.

Blog post

(1)

Davis, J. Antibody Therapy That Prevents Neurological Damage In Mice Could Help With Alzheimer’s. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibody-therapy/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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. FCC: Reconsideration of the Rules and Policies for the 220-222 MHz Radio Service; OGC-98-57; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

(1)

DeReus, D. L. The Correlation between Career Anchors and Satisfaction - a Comparative Analysis of Multiple Affiliations under a Single Organizational Structure. 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

(1)

Yablonsky, L. The Hebrew School. New York Times. November 16, 2008, p M280.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biomacromolecules
Abbreviation	Biomacromolecules
ISSN (print)	1525-7797
ISSN (online)	1526-4602
Scope	Bioengineering Biomaterials Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics