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

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van Swinderen, B. Attention-like Processes in Drosophila Require Short-Term Memory Genes. Science 2007, 315 (5818), 1590–1593.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Gunlycke, D.; Sheehan, P. E. Materials Science. Local Peeling of Graphene. Science 2011, 331 (6021), 1146–1147.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Huber, G. W.; Shabaker, J. W.; Dumesic, J. A. Raney Ni-Sn Catalyst for H2 Production from Biomass-Derived Hydrocarbons. Science 2003, 300 (5628), 2075–2077.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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El-Halawany, A. M.; El Dine, R. S.; El Sayed, N. S.; Hattori, M. Protective Effect of Aframomum Melegueta Phenolics against CCl₄-Induced Rat Hepatocytes Damage; Role of Apoptosis and pro-Inflammatory Cytokines Inhibition. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Bender, H. F. Das Gefahrstoffbuch; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2002.

An edited book

(1)

Pickering, R. Beginning F# 4.0, 2nd ed. 2016.; Eason, K., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Ditterline, J.; Oakland, T. Relationships Between Adaptive Behavior and Impairment. In Assessing Impairment: From Theory to Practice; Naglieri, J., Goldstein, S., Eds.; Springer US: Boston, MA, 2009; pp 31–48.

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

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Hale, T. The World’s First Wi-Fi Pavement Is Being Piloted In The UK. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/worlds-first-wi-fi-pavement-being-piloted-uk/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Areas Needing Improvement in the Adult Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program; CED-80-138; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Kerr, A. B. Exploring Relationship Awareness in Organizational Change Using the Strength Deployment Inventory. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 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

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Ruiz, R. R.; Schmidt, M. S. Sessions Steers Clear of Trump’s ‘Joke’ on the Use of Force by the Police. New York Times. August 2, 2017, p A10.

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