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

Wadman, M., 2006. The quiet rise of the clinical contractor. Nature 441, 22–23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kiatpongsan, S., Sipp, D., 2009. Medicine. Monitoring and regulating offshore stem cell clinics. Science 323, 1564–1565.

A journal article with 3 authors

Moore, J.D., Kirk, J.A., Hunt, T., 2003. Unmasking the S-phase-promoting potential of cyclin B1. Science 300, 987–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gresham, D., Ruderfer, D.M., Pratt, S.C., Schacherer, J., Dunham, M.J., Botstein, D., Kruglyak, L., 2006. Genome-wide detection of polymorphisms at nucleotide resolution with a single DNA microarray. Science 311, 1932–1936.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tung, C.-H., Sheng, G.T.T., Lu, C.-Y., 2005. ULSI Semiconductor Technology Atlas. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Abu el Ata, N., 2014. Solving the Dynamic Complexity Dilemma: Predictive and Prescriptive Business Management: Answering the Need for a New Paradigm. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Usman Akram, M., Khan, A., Iqbal, K., Butt, W.H., 2010. Retinal Images: Optic Disk Localization and Detection, in: Campilho, A., Kamel, M. (Eds.), Image Analysis and Recognition: 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzin, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 40–49.

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., 2017. Fool’s Gold Preserved World’s Oldest Mushroom [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fools-gold-preserved-worlds-oldest-mushroom/ (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, 1987. Job Training Partnership Act: Summer Youth Programs Increase Emphasis on Education (No. HRD-87-101BR). 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

Chanderbhan-Forde, S., 2010. Asian Indian mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling: An analysis of social and cultural capital (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, 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

Billard, M., 2010. For Stepping Across a Bridge. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Kiatpongsan and Sipp, 2009; Wadman, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kiatpongsan and Sipp, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Gresham et al., 2006)

About the journal

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