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]

G. Schilling, Sloan Digital Sky Survey. A hundred million points of light, Nature 407 (2000) 557.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Thomassen, M.S. Kavuru, Lung disease: Treatment by cell transplant, Nature 514 (2014) 438–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.J. Adams, Y.-H. Chien, K.C. Garcia, Structure of a gammadelta T cell receptor in complex with the nonclassical MHC T22, Science 308 (2005) 227–231.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Rijavec, P. Korošec, M. Žavbi, I. Kern, M.M. Malovrh, Let-7a is differentially expressed in bronchial biopsies of patients with severe asthma, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6103.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.E. Nazarov, A.V. Radostin, Nonlinear Acoustic Waves in Micro-inhomogeneous Solids, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, eds., Engineering Trustworthy Software Systems: First International School, SETSS 2014, Chongqing, China, September 8-13, 2014. Tutorial Lectures, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Di Gaspero, J. Gärtner, N. Musliu, A. Schaerf, W. Schafhauser, W. Slany, Automated Shift Design and Break Scheduling, in: A.S. Uyar, E. Ozcan, N. Urquhart (Eds.), Automated Scheduling and Planning: From Theory to Practice, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 109–127.

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]

B. Taub, Prejudice Can Actually Change How You View Faces, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/social-stereotypes-warp-way-we-see-faces/ (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, District of Columbia Charter Schools: Criteria for Awarding School Buildings to Charter Schools Needs Additional Transparency, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-C. Hung, Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

R. Rojas, A. Southall, 5 From Baruch College Face Murder Charges in 2013 Fraternity Hazing, New York Times (2015) A18.

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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