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 J. McDermott, “The evolution of music,” Nature 453(7193), 287–288 (2008).

A journal article with 2 authors

¹ T. Takeuchi, and R.G.M. Morris, “Neuroscience: Shedding light on a change of mind,” Nature 513(7518), 323–324 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

¹ G. Wild, A. Gardner, and S.A. West, “Adaptation and the evolution of parasite virulence in a connected world,” Nature 459(7249), 983–986 (2009).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

¹ I. Haferkamp, S. Schmitz-Esser, N. Linka, C. Urbany, A. Collingro, M. Wagner, M. Horn, and H.E. Neuhaus, “A candidate NAD+ transporter in an intracellular bacterial symbiont related to Chlamydiae,” Nature 432(7017), 622–625 (2004).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

¹ T.E. Southard, S.D. Marshall, and L.L. Bonner, Orthodontics in the Vertical Dimension (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015).

An edited book

¹ X. Yang, Incomplete Information System and Rough Set Theory: Models and Attribute Reductions (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

¹ S.J. Skerrett, in Mucosal Immunology of Acute Bacterial Pneumonia, edited by A. Prince (Springer, New York, NY, 2013), pp. 125–138.

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 E. Andrew, “No, Sunscreen Will Not Give You Cancer,” IFLScience, (2014).

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, Toward Equality: Education of the Deaf (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

¹ G. Kim, Development of a Nutrition-Based Curriculum for Farm-to-School Programs for the Fourth and Fifth Grades, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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 B. Protess, “Apollo Global Settles Securities Case as the S.E.C. Imposes a $53 Million Fine,” New York Times, B3 (2016).

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

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