How to format your references using the Biomolecular Detection and Quantification citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biomolecular Detection and Quantification. 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	Download the output style file
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. Buratowski, Transcription. Gene expression--where to start?, Science 322 (2008) 1804–1805.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.J. Simpson, D. Raubenheimer, Perspective: Tricks of the trade, Nature 508 (2014) S66.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Karl, B. Nowak, T. Gasenzer, Tuning universality far from equilibrium, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2394.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Hasselmann, T. Gempe, M. Schiøtt, C.G. Nunes-Silva, M. Otte, M. Beye, Evidence for the evolutionary nascence of a novel sex determination pathway in honeybees, Nature 454 (2008) 519–522.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Sizer, C. Balachandar, N. Biswas, R. Foon, A. Griffiths, S. Hodgett, B. Sahu, M. Underwood, Part 2 MRCOG: Single Best Answer Questions, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

O. Castillo, W. Pedrycz, J. Kacprzyk, eds., Evolutionary Design of Intelligent Systems in Modeling, Simulation and Control, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Girolomoni, P. Gisondi, S. Pastore, Dermatite atopica: eziopatogenesi, in: C. Gelmetti (Ed.), La Scuola Dell’atopia, Springer, Milano, 2007: pp. 49–58.

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 Biomolecular Detection and Quantification.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Nasty Star Has Cosmic Temper Tantrum, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasty-star/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Administration of Certain Allowances and Differentials Paid to Civilian Employees Located Overseas, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.S. Brenner, The Phonetics of Mandarin Tones in Conversation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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]

M.K. Schilling, Wild Kingdom, New York Times (2017) M2138.

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	Biomolecular Detection and Quantification
Abbreviation	Biomol. Detect. Quantif.
ISSN (print)	2214-7535
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