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]

M.J. Benton, Evolution. How birds became birds, Science 345 (2014) 508–509.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Chudinovskikh, R. Boehler, High-pressure polymorphs of olivine and the 660-km seismic discontinuity, Nature 411 (2001) 574–577.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Pan, M. Shao, S.R. Kulkarni, A distance of 133-137 parsecs to the Pleiades star cluster, Nature 427 (2004) 326–328.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Murata, K. Sasaki, T. Kishimoto, S.-I. Niwa, H. Hayashi, Y. Takahama, K. Tanaka, Regulation of CD8+ T cell development by thymus-specific proteasomes, Science 316 (2007) 1349–1353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Smith, D. Meeking, How to Succeed at the Medical Interview, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D.T. Lee, S.P. Shieh, J.D. Tygar, eds., Computer Security in the 21st Century, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.A. Dawson, A. Greven, Formulation of the Main Results in the General Case, in: A. Greven (Ed.), Spatial Fleming-Viot Models with Selection and Mutation, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 55–104.

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]

E. Andrew, What Cures May Lie Within Kew Gardens? Give It The Financial Freedom To Find Them, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-cures-may-lie-within-kew-gardens-give-it-financial-freedom-find-them/ (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, Monte Canfield, Jr., 1974-1978, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Sharp, The Epistolary Form: A Familiar Fiction, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2016.

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]

B. Barnes, J. Creswell, Reeling From Scandal, Weinstein’s Studio Gets Financial Lifeline From Equity Firm, New York Times (2017) A11.

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