How to format your references using the Biosensors and Bioelectronics citation style

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

Chazelle, B., 2007. Computer science. Coding and computing join forces. Science 317, 1691–1692.

A journal article with 2 authors

Webb, J., Domanski, M., 2009. Paleontology. Fire and stone. Science 325, 820–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shay, J.W., Reddel, R.R., Wright, W.E., 2012. Cancer. Cancer and telomeres--an ALTernative to telomerase. Science 336, 1388–1390.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Blilou, I., Xu, J., Wildwater, M., Willemsen, V., Paponov, I., Friml, J., Heidstra, R., Aida, M., Palme, K., Scheres, B., 2005. The PIN auxin efflux facilitator network controls growth and patterning in Arabidopsis roots. Nature 433, 39–44.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eidhammer, I., Barsnes, H., Eide, G.E., Martens, L., 2013. Computational and Statistical Methods for Protein Quantification by Mass Spectrometry. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Brombin, C., 2016. Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for Statistical Dynamic Shape Analysis with Applications, 1st ed. 2016. ed, SpringerBriefs in Statistics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ditcheva, B., Dicheva, D., 2007. Visual Browsing and Editing of Topic Map-Based Learning Repositories, in: Maicher, L., Sigel, A., Garshol, L.M. (Eds.), Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps: Second International Conference on Topic Maps Research and Applications, TMRA 2006, Leipzig, Germany, October 11-12, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 44–55.

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 Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Comet To Make Close Approach To Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2013. Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Identified Ways to Mitigate Data Gaps, but Contingency Plans and Schedules Require Further Attention (No. GAO-13-676). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gjelaj Merturi, E., 2010. The Perceptions of Principal-Based Leadership Practices on Student Reading Achievement (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Trinity Church Is Sued For Moving a Sculpture. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Chazelle, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chazelle, 2007; Webb and Domanski, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Webb and Domanski, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Blilou et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Abbreviation	Biosens. Bioelectron.
ISSN (print)	0956-5663
Scope	Biophysics Biotechnology Electrochemistry Biomedical Engineering General Medicine