How to format your references using the Biomimetics citation style

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

Balmford, A. Ecology. Pollution, Politics, and Vultures. Science 2013, 339, 653–654.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dijk, D.-J.; Skeldon, A.C. Biological Rhythms: Human Sleep before the Industrial Era. Nature 2015, 527, 176–177.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zaimi, K.; Ishak, A.; Pop, I. Boundary Layer Flow and Heat Transfer over a Nonlinearly Permeable Stretching/Shrinking Sheet in a Nanofluid. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4404.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sugawara, K.; Hamatani, T.; Yamada, M.; Ogawa, S.; Kamijo, S.; Kuji, N.; Akutsu, H.; Miyado, K.; Yoshimura, Y.; Umezawa, A. Derivation of Human Decidua-like Cells from Amnion and Menstrual Blood. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pompian, M.M. Advising Ultra-Affluent Clients and Family Offices; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118267851.

An edited book

Borghese, F. Scattering from Model Nonspherical Particles: Theory and Applications to Environmental Physics; Denti, P., Saija, R., Eds.; Physics of Earth and Space Environments; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; ISBN 9783540374138.

A chapter in an edited book

Fernández, A.; Peralta, D.; Herrera, F.; Benítez, J.M. An Overview of E-Learning in Cloud Computing. In Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud (LTEC’12); Uden, L., Corchado Rodríguez, E.S., De Paz Santana, J.F., De la Prieta, F., Eds.; Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 35–46 ISBN 9783642308581.

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 Biomimetics.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 7 Myths About Space You Probably Believe (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2002;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marquez, R.A. Examining Coping Skills Used to Deal with Daily Stressors of Law Enforcement. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Brantley, B. Dear Theatergoers: Prepare for a Good Cry. New York Times 2016, C1.

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	Biomimetics
Abbreviation	Biomimetics (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2313-7673
Scope