How to format your references using the Biomedical Microdevices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomedical Microdevices. 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

T. Scully, Nature 497, S1 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

M. E. Herberstein and D. J. Kemp, Science 335, 409 (2012).

A journal article with 3 authors

G. Borgia, B. J. Coyle, and J. Keagy, Science 337, 292; author reply 292 (2012).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

K. Hennessy, A. Badolato, M. Winger, D. Gerace, M. Atatüre, S. Gulde, S. Fält, E. L. Hu, and A. Imamoğlu, Nature 445, 896 (2007).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

L. Nemethy, Business Exit Planning (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

An edited book

B. M. Kumar and P. K. R. Nair, editors , Tropical Homegardens: A Time-Tested Example of Sustainable Agroforestry (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006).

A chapter in an edited book

S. Kierkegaard, in The Secure Information Society: Ethical, Legal and Political Challenges, edited by J. Krüger, B. Nickolay, and S. Gaycken (Springer, London, 2013), pp. 117–134.

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 Microdevices.

Blog post

S. Luntz, IFLScience (2016).

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, Schedule Delays and Cost Overruns Plague DOD Automated Information Systems (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

J. L. Michaels, Changing Cooperation to Competition Disrupts Attitudes and Valence: First Test of a Dynamical Model, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2009.

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

J. Traub, New York Times BR12 (2016).

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scully 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Herberstein and Kemp 2012; Scully 2013).

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

Two authors: (Herberstein and Kemp 2012)
Three or more authors: (Hennessy et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biomedical Microdevices
Abbreviation	Biomed. Microdevices
ISSN (print)	1387-2176
ISSN (online)	1572-8781
Scope	Molecular Biology Biomedical Engineering