How to format your references using the Bioprinting citation style

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

[1]

A. Bird, Molecular biology. Methylation talk between histones and DNA, Science 294 (2001) 2113–2115.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E.D. Prescott, D. Julius, A modular PIP2 binding site as a determinant of capsaicin receptor sensitivity, Science 300 (2003) 1284–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Zhao, A.S. Goldman, J.F. Hartwig, Oxidative addition of ammonia to form a stable monomeric amido hydride complex, Science 307 (2005) 1080–1082.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P.A. Mazzali, J. Deng, K. Nomoto, D.N. Sauer, E. Pian, N. Tominaga, M. Tanaka, K. Maeda, A.V. Filippenko, A neutron-star-driven X-ray flash associated with supernova SN 2006aj, Nature 442 (2006) 1018–1020.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B.C. Frueh, A.L. Grubaugh, J.D. Elhai, J.D. Ford, Assessment and Treatment Planning for PTSD, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A. Sellitto, Mesoscopic Theories of Heat Transport in Nanosystems, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Kikuzawa, M.J. Lechowicz, Phylogenetic Variation in Leaf Longevity, in: M.J. Lechowicz (Ed.), Ecology of Leaf Longevity, Springer, Tokyo, 2011: pp. 57–65.

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 Bioprinting.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, There’s A Rather Unusual Way To Fix Your Phone If You’ve Dunked It In Water, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/theres-a-rather-unusual-way-to-fix-your-phone-if-youve-dunked-it-in-water/ (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, School Vouchers: Publicly Funded Programs in Cleveland and Milwaukee, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Moton, Investigation of low temperature solid oxide fuel cells for air-independent UUV applications, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

M.D. Shear, K.P. Vogel, Seat at Le Cirque, and a Word With Trump, for $250,000, New York Times (2017) A20.

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	Bioprinting
Abbreviation	Bioprinting
ISSN (print)	2405-8866
Scope	Biotechnology Computer Science Applications Biomedical Engineering