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

Fisher L. Avoid major disasters by welcoming minor change. Nature 2015; 527:9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oliveira JG, Barabási A-L. Human dynamics: Darwin and Einstein correspondence patterns. Nature 2005; 437:1251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Williams CC, Jan CH, Weissman JS. Targeting and plasticity of mitochondrial proteins revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science 2014; 346:748–51.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jung A, Maier R, Vartanian J-P, Bocharov G, Jung V, Fischer U, Meese E, Wain-Hobson S, Meyerhans A. Recombination: Multiply infected spleen cells in HIV patients. Nature 2002; 418:144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cahill TH. Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Whitacre DM, editor. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology Volume 206. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Tibon-Czopp S, Weiner IB. The Rorschach Inkblot Method: Research. In: Weiner IB, editor. Rorschach Assessment of Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York, NY: Springer; 2016. page 65–95.

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

Hamilton K. The Largest Living Thing On Earth Is Mostly Hidden From View [Internet]. IFLScience2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-largest-living-thing-on-earth-is-mostly-hidden-from-view/

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. Federal Organization for Science and Technology. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wu D-MC. Function and regulation of Drosophila myc during wing growth. 2010;

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

Rothenberg B. Kerber Encounters a Pliskova Test, but Not the Usual One. New York Times2017; :B13.

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)