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

Sarewitz, D., 2015. Reproducibility will not cure what ails science. Nature 525, 159.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ferrara, N., Kerbel, R.S., 2005. Angiogenesis as a therapeutic target. Nature 438, 967–974.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lowman, M., D’Avanzo, C., Brewer, C., 2009. Ecology. A national ecological network for research and education. Science 323, 1172–1173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zheng, Y., Chaudhry, A., Kas, A., deRoos, P., Kim, J.M., Chu, T.-T., Corcoran, L., Treuting, P., Klein, U., Rudensky, A.Y., 2009. Regulatory T-cell suppressor program co-opts transcription factor IRF4 to control T(H)2 responses. Nature 458, 351–356.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bays, D.H., 2011. A New History of Christianity in China. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Schutz, A., 2011. Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences, Phaenomenologica, Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Almond, R.G., Mislevy, R.J., Steinberg, L.S., Yan, D., Williamson, D.M., 2015. Efficient Calculations, in: Mislevy, R.J., Steinberg, L.S., Yan, D., Williamson, D.M. (Eds.), Bayesian Networks in Educational Assessment, Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 105–155.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Detect The Oldest, Most Distant Galaxy Known So Far [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-detect-oldest-most-distant-galaxy-known-so-far/ (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, 2017. Tribal Transportation: Better Data Could Improve Road Management and Inform Indian Student Attendance Strategies (No. GAO-17-423). 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

Gros, T.R., 2009. A templated agarose scaffold for axon guidance in the central and peripheral nervous system (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Shear, M.D., Davenport, C., 2017. World Awaits President’s Decision on U.S. Future in Paris Accord. New York Times A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ferrara and Kerbel, 2005; Sarewitz, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ferrara and Kerbel, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Zheng et al., 2009)

About the journal

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