How to format your references using the BioNanoScience citation style

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

Webb, P. (2010). Science education and literacy: imperatives for the developed and developing world. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5977), 448–450.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nisbet, E., & Weiss, R. (2010). Atmospheric science. Top-down versus bottom-up. Science (New York, N.Y.), 328(5983), 1241–1243.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jan, C. H., Williams, C. C., & Weissman, J. S. (2014). Principles of ER cotranslational translocation revealed by proximity-specific ribosome profiling. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6210), 1257521.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Broecker, W. S., Denton, G. H., Kong, X., Wang, Y., … Wang, X. (2009). Ice age terminations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5950), 248–252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kharmanda, G., & El Hami, A. (2016). Reliability in Biomechanics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Michaelides, S. (Ed.). (2008). Precipitation: Advances in Measurement, Estimation and Prediction. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Goerzen, C., Kong, Z., & Mettler, B. (2010). A Survey of Motion Planning Algorithms from the Perspective of Autonomous UAV Guidance. In K. P. Valavanis, R. Beard, P. Oh, A. Ollero, L. A. Piegl, & H. Shim (Eds.), Selected papers from the 2nd International Symposium on UAVs, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. June 8–10, 2009 (pp. 65–100). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 BioNanoScience.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2014, August 27). No, The CDC Is Not Covering Up Evidence That Vaccines Cause Autism. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (2015). School Meals: USDA Could Improve Verification Process for Program Access (No. GAO-15-634T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Prietto, M. (2015). No place like home: The problem and the promise of the home psychotherapy office (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Koblin, J., & Barnes, B. (2017, June 19). A Lavish Emmy Campaign. New York Times, p. B1.

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	BioNanoScience
Abbreviation	Bionanoscience
ISSN (print)	2191-1630
ISSN (online)	2191-1649
Scope	Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering

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