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]

Wake D B 2012 Ecology. Facing extinction in real time Science 335 1052–3

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kmita M and Duboule D 2003 Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering Science 301 331–3

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robinson G E, Fernald R D and Clayton D F 2008 Genes and social behavior Science 322 896–900

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Suga H, Kadoshima T, Minaguchi M, Ohgushi M, Soen M, Nakano T, Takata N, Wataya T, Muguruma K, Miyoshi H, Yonemura S, Oiso Y and Sasai Y 2011 Self-formation of functional adenohypophysis in three-dimensional culture Nature 480 57–62

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Eden A H 2011 Codecharts (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Emans P J and Peterson L 2014 Developing Insights in Cartilage Repair (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang C and Balch W E 2016 Managing the Adaptive Proteostatic Landscape: Restoring Resilience in Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Alpha-1 Antitrypsin: Role in Health and Disease Respiratory Medicine ed A Wanner and R A Sandhaus (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 53–83

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 E 2015 Scientists Discover Antimatter In Storms On Earth 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 1995 Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-97 (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]

Meng W 2014 Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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]

Feeney K 2009 Tasting Every Calorie New York Times NJ10

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