How to format your references using the Biomicrofluidics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomicrofluidics. 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 S.T. Cole, “Microbiology. Pyrazinamide--old TB drug finds new target,” Science 333(6049), 1583–1584 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ K. Palczewski, and P.D. Kiser, “Biochemistry. As good as chocolate,” Science 340(6132), 562–563 (2013).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ M.S. Senn, J.P. Wright, and J.P. Attfield, “Charge order and three-site distortions in the Verwey structure of magnetite,” Nature 481(7380), 173–176 (2011).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, C.H. Schunck, E.G.M. Van Kempen, B.J. Verhaar, and W. Ketterle, “Radio-frequency spectroscopy of ultracold fermions,” Science 300(5626), 1723–1726 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ M.A. El-Reedy, Project Management in the Oil and Gas Industry (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016).

An edited book

¹ S.K. Mishra, V-Invex Functions and Vector Optimization (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ L. Han, L. Rudolph, M. Chou, S. Corbett, E. Eagle, D. Glotzer, J. Kramer, J. Moran, C. Pietras, A. Tareen, and M. Valko, “Configurations and Path Planning of Convex Planar Polygonal Loops,” in Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics X: Proceedings of the Tenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, edited by E. Frazzoli, T. Lozano-Perez, N. Roy, and D. Rus, (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013), pp. 53–69.

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 Biomicrofluidics.

Blog post

¹ J. Davis, “Very Hot Drinks ‘Probably’ Cause Cancer, Says The World Health Organization,” 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

¹ Government Accountability Office, Tax Systems Modernization: IRS Award to MITRE Corporation Violated the Competition in Contracting Act (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ P.S. Duerr, Investigation of Marine Waterjet Inlets during Turning Maneuvers, Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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 G. Vecsey, “A Great Goal for the United States, But Not the First or Only Great One,” New York Times, SP1 (2010).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Biomicrofluidics
Abbreviation	Biomicrofluidics
ISSN (online)	1932-1058
Scope	Genetics Molecular Biology Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics