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

Callaway E (2013) Transmission: Control issues. Nature 502:S16-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Polidoro B, Carpenter K (2013) Ecology. Dynamics of coral reef recovery. Science 340:34–35

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo M, Fee MS, Katz LC (2003) Encoding pheromonal signals in the accessory olfactory bulb of behaving mice. Science 299:1196–1201

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gutierrez E, Wiggins D, Fielding B, Gould AP (2007) Specialized hepatocyte-like cells regulate Drosophila lipid metabolism. Nature 445:275–280

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jain RK, Triandis HC, Weick CW (2010) Managing Research, Development, and Innovation. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Russo J (ed) (2011) Environment and Breast Cancer. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Siddiqi K, Bouix S, Shah J (2008) Skeletons via Shocks of Boundary Evolution. In: Siddiqi K, Pizer SM (eds) Medial Representations: Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 127–154

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

Hamilton K (2016) The Most Important Dam You Probably Haven’t Heard Of. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-most-important-dam-you-probably-havent-heard-of/. 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 (1996) Medicaid Managed Care: Serving the Disabled Challenges State Programs. 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

Lamanna SG (2012) Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana 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

Greenhouse L (2009) The Chief Justice on the Spot. New York Times A27

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Callaway 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Polidoro and Carpenter 2013; Callaway 2013).

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

Two authors: (Polidoro and Carpenter 2013)
Three or more authors: (Gutierrez 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

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