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

Strogatz SH (2001) Exploring complex networks. Nature 410:268–276

A journal article with 2 authors

deHaseth PL, Nilsen TW (2004) Molecular biology. When a part is as good as the whole. Science 303:1307–1308

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin Z, Owen AB, Altman RB (2004) Genetics. Genomic research and human subject privacy. Science 305:183

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Walmsley MJ, Ooi SKT, Reynolds LF, et al (2003) Critical roles for Rac1 and Rac2 GTPases in B cell development and signaling. Science 302:459–462

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Homer S, Leibowitz ML (2013) Inside the Yield Book. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ryabov VV (2014) Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril’sk Region: Volume 1. Trap Petrology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Alberts DS, Clouser MC (2010) Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: Phase III Trials. In: Alberts DS, Clouser MC, Hess LM (eds) Intraperitoneal Therapy for Ovarian Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–50

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 (2015) This Robotic Finger Looks and Flexes Just Like Your Own. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robotic-finger-looks-and-flexes-just-your-own/. 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 (1982) UMTA’s Research and Development Program Should Pay Closer Attention to Transit Industry Needs. 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

Stevenson M (2008) A change for the future: Presidents and deans real and ideal leadership practices at community and junior colleges in Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University

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

Shear MD, Vogel KP (2017) Seat at Le Cirque, and a Word With Trump, for $250,000. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strogatz 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Strogatz 2001; deHaseth and Nilsen 2004).

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

Two authors: (deHaseth and Nilsen 2004)
Three or more authors: (Walmsley et al. 2003)

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