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]

C. Smith, A question of form, Nature 422 (2003) 341.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.J. Middelburg, F.J.R. Meysman, Ocean science. Burial at sea, Science 316 (2007) 1294–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Shembade, A. Ma, E.W. Harhaj, Inhibition of NF-kappaB signaling by A20 through disruption of ubiquitin enzyme complexes, Science 327 (2010) 1135–1139.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.M. Lindroth, X. Cao, J.P. Jackson, D. Zilberman, C.M. McCallum, S. Henikoff, S.E. Jacobsen, Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for maintenance of CpXpG methylation, Science 292 (2001) 2077–2080.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.P. Kubicek, Fungi and Lignocellulosic Biomass, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R.B. France, J.M. Kuester, B. Bordbar, R.F. Paige, eds., Modelling Foundations and Applications: 7th European Conference, ECMFA 2011, Birmingham, UK, June 6 - 9, 2011 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Aidos, A. Fred, k-Nearest Neighbor Classification Using Dissimilarity Increments, in: A. Campilho, M. Kamel (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 9th International Conference, ICIAR 2012, Aveiro, Portugal, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 27–33.

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]

T. Hale, Two US WW2 Bombers That Went Missing Over The Pacific Discovered On Sea Floor, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/two-us-ww2-bombers-that-went-missing-over-the-pacific-discovered-on-sea-floor/ (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, The Summer Feeding Program for Children: Reforms Begun--Many More Urgently Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Doddick, Noncontact 2D Plethysmography: A non-invasive technique for monitoring dynamic trends in a respiratory system, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

L. Yablonsky, Exhibit A-List, New York Times (2009) M226.

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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