How to format your references using the Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology citation style

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

Eisenberg L (2000) Seymour S. Kety (1915-2000). Nature 406:472

A journal article with 2 authors

Durst AC, Girvin SM (2004) Physics. Cooking a two-dimensional electron gas with microwaves. Science 304:1752–1753

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen Y, Buick R, Canfield DE (2001) Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era. Nature 410:77–81

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jiang H, Xu L, Wang Z, et al (2014) Coordinating expression of RNA binding proteins with their mRNA targets. Sci Rep 4:7175

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Qiu X, Ding C, Hu D (2013) Bistatic SAR Data Processing Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Solaris South Tower, Singapore

An edited book

Hanachi C, Bénaben F, Charoy F (eds) (2014) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries: First International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2014, Toulouse, France, October 15-17, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Bukodi E (2010) Educational Expansion and Social Class Returns to Tertiary Qualifications in Post-communist Countries. In: Dronkers J (ed) Quality and Inequality of Education: Cross-National Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 83–110

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 Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2016) Stephen Hawking’s Interstellar Mission To Alpha Centauri Gets Help From NASA To Deal With Radiation. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/stephen-hawking-interstellar-mission-alpha-centauri-nasa-radiation/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1973) Expenditures for Public Affairs Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones G (2009) The impact of song on repeated reading: An examination of comprehension, fluency, and engagement with texts of Hispanic second graders in a Title I urban school. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Haberman M, Thrush G, Schmidt MS, Baker P (2017) How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in Firing. New York Times A1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Eisenberg 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Eisenberg 2000; Durst and Girvin 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Durst and Girvin 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jiang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
Abbreviation	Biomech. Model. Mechanobiol.
ISSN (print)	1617-7959
ISSN (online)	1617-7940
Scope	Biotechnology Mechanical Engineering Modelling and Simulation