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

Lake JA. Evidence for an early prokaryotic endosymbiosis. Nature 2009; 460:967–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dranovsky A, Leonardo ED. Neuroscience: The power of positivity. Nature 2015; 522:294–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grafton RQ, Kompas T, Hilborn RW. Economics of overexploitation revisited. Science 2007; 318:1601.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Guerin E, Cambray G, Sanchez-Alberola N, Campoy S, Erill I, Da Re S, Gonzalez-Zorn B, Barbé J, Ploy M-C, Mazel D. The SOS response controls integron recombination. Science 2009; 324:1034.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Port M. Beyond Booked Solid. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Ganesh K. Design and Development of Knowledge Management for Manufacturing: Framework, Solution and Strategy. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerbush M, Lewko A, O’Neill A, Waters B. Dual Form Signatures: An Approach for Proving Security from Static Assumptions. In: Wang X, Sako K, editors. Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2012: 18th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Beijing, China, December 2-6, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. page 25–42.

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

Andrew E. Astronauts Aboard ISS Evacuated From US Segment Following Suspected Toxic Ammonia Leak [Internet]. IFLScience2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]; Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronauts-aboard-iss-evacuated-us-segment-following-suspected-toxic-ammonia-leak/

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. Airport Finance: Observations on Planned Airport Development Costs and Funding Levels and the Administration’s Proposed Changes in the Airport Improvement Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Watson KL. Putting together the pieces of a social cognition deficit: A retrospective case study. 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

St. John Kelly E. Almost Tudor Interior, but Ignoble Facade. New York Times1998; :149.

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)

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