How to format your references using the Biomaterials Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomaterials Research. 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. Diringer E. Climate policy: letting go of Kyoto. Nature. 2011;479:291–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Brooks T, Smith ML. Ecology. Caribbean catastrophes. Science. 2001;294:1469–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Labidi J, Cartigny P, Moreira M. Non-chondritic sulphur isotope composition of the terrestrial mantle. Nature. 2013;501:208–11.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tuteja A, Choi W, Ma M, Mabry JM, Mazzella SA, Rutledge GC, et al. Designing superoleophobic surfaces. Science. 2007;318:1618–22.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kenett RS, Zacks S, Amberti D. Modern Industrial Statistics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Plein S. Cardiovascular MR Manual. Greenwood J, Ridgway JP, editors. London: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Boiten E, Grundy D. The Logic of Large Enough. In: Bolduc C, Desharnais J, Ktari B, editors. Mathematics of Program Construction: 10th International Conference, MPC 2010, Québec City, Canada, June 21-23, 2010 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 42–57.

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 Biomaterials Research.

Blog post

1. O`Callaghan J. April Fools’ Day Comet To Swing By Earth This Weekend [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/april-fools-day-comet-to-swing-by-earth-this-weekend/

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. Classification and Qualification Standards for the GS-1410 Library-Information Service Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Aug. Report No.: GGD-83-97.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Miller DB. Nurse educators’ leadership styles and nurse graduates’ licensure passage rates [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2009.

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. Brantley B. Serving Ham on Soignée Silk. New York Times. 2017 Apr 6;C1.

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	Biomaterials Research
Abbreviation	Biomater. Res.
ISSN (online)	2055-7124
Scope