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

Laxminarayan R (2014) Antibiotic effectiveness: balancing conservation against innovation. Science 345:1299–1301

A journal article with 2 authors

Fodde R, Smits R (2002) Cancer biology. A matter of dosage. Science 298:761–763

A journal article with 3 authors

Ottosen S, Herrera FJ, Triezenberg SJ (2002) Transcription. Proteasome parts at gene promoters. Science 296:479–481

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Garabato ACN, Stevens DP, Watson AJ, Roether W (2007) Short-circuiting of the overturning circulation in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Nature 447:194–197

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McEvily AJ (2013) Metal Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wyrzykowski R, Dongarra J, Karczewski K, Waśniewski J (eds) (2014) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics: 10th International Conference, PPAM 2013, Warsaw, Poland, September 8-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Doria A (2014) Relativistic Electrons-Based THz Sources: Principles of Operation and the ENEA Experience. In: Perenzoni M, Paul DJ (eds) Physics and Applications of Terahertz Radiation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 123–148

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

Andrew E (2014) Watch Sulfuric Acid Melt A Kitchen Sponge in Slow Motion! In: IFLScience. 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 (2006) LOCAL Television Act: Status of Spending for Fiscal Year 2005. 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

Ho L (2012) Determination of Ibuprofen Isotherm Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Reinhart MK (2015) A Complicated Match Made on the Hardwood. New York Times ST1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Laxminarayan 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Fodde and Smits 2002; Laxminarayan 2014).

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

Two authors: (Fodde and Smits 2002)
Three or more authors: (Garabato et al. 2007)

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