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]

D. Sarewitz, Better all the time, Nature. 463 (2010) 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Koos, N. Willenbacher, Capillary forces in suspension rheology, Science. 331 (2011) 897–900.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.H. Stairs, A.G. Lyne, S.L. Shemar, Evidence for free precession in a pulsar, Nature. 406 (2000) 484–486.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Crawford, T.P. Korman, J.W. Labonte, A.L. Vagstad, E.A. Hill, O. Kamari-Bidkorpeh, S.-C. Tsai, C.A. Townsend, Structural basis for biosynthetic programming of fungal aromatic polyketide cyclization, Nature. 461 (2009) 1139–1143.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Ramirez, Handbook of Corporate Equity Derivatives and Equity Capital Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Manolopoulos, J. Pokorný, T.K. Sellis, eds., Advances in Databases and Information Systems: 10th East European Conference, ADBIS 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 3-7, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.T. Crooks, A.J. Heppenstall, Introduction to Agent-Based Modelling, in: A.J. Heppenstall, A.T. Crooks, L.M. See, M. Batty (Eds.), Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012: pp. 85–105.

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, How The Largest Association Of Psychologists In The US Colluded In Torture, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-largest-association-psychologists-us-colluded-ttorture/ (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, Selected Contracts, Purchase Orders, and Grants Awarded to Indian Tribes and Organizations During Fiscal Year 1971, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Martinez, Effective nonprofit collaborative networks, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]

G. Vecsey, How Broken Must College Football Be to Fix It?, New York Times. (2010) B11.

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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