How to format your references using the Biomedical Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Materials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Butler D 2005 Parasitology: Triple genome triumph Nature 436 337

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Atatüre M and Morton J J L 2014 Quantum information. A gem of a quantum teleporter Science 345 510–1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Segawa Y, Yamashita M and Nozaki K 2006 Boryllithium: isolation, characterization, and reactivity as a boryl anion Science 314 113–5

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Cheben P, del Monte F, Worsfold D J, Carlsson D J, Grover C P and Mackenzie J D 2000 A photorefractive organically modified silica glass with high optical gain Nature 408 64–7

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Tolin D F, Worden B L, Wootton B M and Gilliam C M 2017 CBT for Hoarding Disorder (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Torza A 2015 Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language vol 373 (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

García-Fernández N, Macher H C, Rubio A, Jiménez-Arriscado P, Bernal-Bellido C, Bellido-Díaz M L, Suárez-Artacho G, Guerrero J M, Gómez-Bravo M A and Molinero P 2016 Detection of p53 Mutations in Circulating DNA of Transplanted Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients as a Biomarker of Tumor Recurrence Circulating Nucleic Acids in Serum and Plasma – CNAPS IX Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ed P B Gahan, M Fleischhacker and B Schmidt (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 25–8

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 Biomedical Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D 2016 Five Amazing Ways Plants Have Created New Technologies IFLScience

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1991 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Medium Range System Components Do Not Fit (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bleicher J 2008 Scenario methods as a means for enhancing organizational learning: A Delphi study Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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

[1]

Vecsey G 2011 Athlete-Fan Dialogue Becomes Shouting Match New York Times SP9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Biomedical Materials
Abbreviation	Biomed. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1748-6041
ISSN (online)	1748-605X
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials