How to format your references using the Biomatter citation style

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

Tsao D. Eppendorf 2006 winner. A dedicated system for processing faces. Science 2006; 314:72–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Scott JD, Pawson T. Cell signaling in space and time: where proteins come together and when they’re apart. Science 2009; 326:1220–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu H-W, Park C-W, Ryu K-Y. Disruption of polyubiquitin gene Ubb causes dysregulation of neural stem cell differentiation with premature gliogenesis. Sci Rep 2014; 4:7026.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Schön JH, Kloc C, Siegrist T, Steigerwald M, Svensson C, Batlogg B. Superconductivity in single crystals of the fullerene C70. Nature 2001; 413:831–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chitty J, Raftery A. Essentials of Tortoise Medicine and Surgery. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

Natarajan R, editor. Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 10th International Conference, ICDCIT 2014, Bhubaneswar, India, February 6-9, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivkin W, Schmidt K-H. Beneficial Effects of Servant Leadership on Short- and Long-Term Indicators of Employees’ Psychological Health. In: Deml B, Stock P, Bruder R, Schlick CM, editors. Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of GfA 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2016. page 71–85.

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 Biomatter.

Blog post

Hale T. Scouts And Guides Grow Up To Have Better Mental Health [Internet]. IFLScience2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scouts-and-guides-grow-up-to-have-better-mental-health/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: Impacts of Utility Relocations on Highway and Bridge Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Subramanian K. Mechanisms and Effect of Microstructure on High Temperature Deformation of Gamma-TiAl Based Alloys. 2003;

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

Crow K. A Mystery in Harlem. New York Times2002; :141.

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	Biomatter
Abbreviation	Biomatter
ISSN (print)	2159-2527
ISSN (online)	2159-2535
Scope	Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials General Medicine Medicine (miscellaneous)