How to format your references using the Biomaterials Science citation style

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

J. Geanakoplos, Nature, 2009, 457, 963.

A journal article with 2 authors

O. M. Bannard and J. G. Cyster, Science, 2012, 336, 1120–1121.

A journal article with 3 authors

T. J. Desai, D. G. Brownfield and M. A. Krasnow, Nature, 2014, 507, 190–194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

H. Baba, F. Aziz, Y. Kaifu, G. Suwa, R. T. Kono and T. Jacob, Science, 2003, 299, 1384–1388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.-L. Monino and S. Sedkaoui, Big Data, Open Data and Data Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

Z. Lukszo, G. Deconinck and M. P. C. Weijnen, Eds., Securing Electricity Supply in the Cyber Age: Exploring the Risks of Information and Communication Technology in Tomorrow’s Electricity Infrastructure, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010, vol. 15.

A chapter in an edited book

G. Iaconetta, E. Ferrer, A. P. Galino, J. Enseñat and M. de Notaris, in Cranial, Craniofacial and Skull Base Surgery, eds. P. Cappabianca, G. Iaconetta and L. Califano, Springer, Milano, 2010, pp. 39–59.

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 Science.

Blog post

T. Hale, The Weather Channel Shuts Down Breitbart For Misleading Climate Change Article, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-weather-channel-shuts-down-breitbart-for-misleading-climate-change-article/, (accessed 30 October 2018).

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

Government Accountability Office, Army Deployment: Better Transportation Planning Is Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

L. V. Davis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

K. Crow, New York Times, 2001, 1410.

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	Biomaterials Science
Abbreviation	Biomater. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2047-4830
ISSN (online)	2047-4849
Scope	Biomedical Engineering General Materials Science