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

Farokhzad, O.C., 2015. Nanotechnology: Platelet mimicry. Nature 526, 47–48.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gottlieb, J., Mazzoni, P., 2004. Neuroscience. Action, illusion, and perception. Science 303, 317–318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gu, C., Jan, Y.N., Jan, L.Y., 2003. A conserved domain in axonal targeting of Kv1 (Shaker) voltage-gated potassium channels. Science 301, 646–649.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Onodera, R., Motoyama, K., Tanaka, N., Ohyama, A., Okamatsu, A., Higashi, T., Kariya, R., Okada, S., Arima, H., 2014. Involvement of autophagy in antitumor activity of folate-appended methyl-β-cyclodextrin. Sci. Rep. 4, 4417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Snape, S., 2011. Ancient Egyptian Tombs. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Martin-Gonzalez, A., Uc-Cetina, V. (Eds.), 2016. Intelligent Computing Systems: First International Symposium, ISICS 2016, Mérida, México, March 16-18, 2016, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuźniak, E., 2010. The Ascorbate–Gluathione Cycle and Related Redox Signals in Plant–Pathogen Interactions, in: Anjum, N.A., Chan, M.-T., Umar, S. (Eds.), Ascorbate-Glutathione Pathway and Stress Tolerance in Plants. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 115–136.

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

Evans, K., 2016. Fish With Human-Like Teeth Found In Lake Michigan Highlights Dangers Of Pet-Dumping [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, 2000. Math and Science Education: Comprehensive Information About Federally Funded Materials Not Available (No. HEHS-00-110). 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

Fichera, M., 2015. Transport of seawater and its influence on the transverse tensile strength of unidirectional composite materials (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Kenigsberg, B., 2017. Out of Iraq, Still Scanning for Roadside Bombs in Kansas. New York Times C9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Farokhzad, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Farokhzad, 2015; Gottlieb and Mazzoni, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Gottlieb and Mazzoni, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Onodera et al., 2014)

About the journal

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