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

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

Strasser, P., 2015. CHEMISTRY. Catalysts by Platonic design. Science 349, 379–380.

A journal article with 2 authors

Doherty, C.J., Kay, S.A., 2012. Circadian surprise--it’s not all about transcription. Science 338, 338–340.

A journal article with 3 authors

McDonald, J.J., Teder-Sälejärvi, W.A., Ward, L.M., 2001. Multisensory integration and crossmodal attention effects in the human brain. Science 292, 1791.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kassar-Duchossoy, L., Gayraud-Morel, B., Gomès, D., Rocancourt, D., Buckingham, M., Shinin, V., Tajbakhsh, S., 2004. Mrf4 determines skeletal muscle identity in Myf5:Myod double-mutant mice. Nature 431, 466–471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stone, C.A., Zissu, A., 2012. The Securitization Markets Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gabbay, D.M., 2010. Revision, Acceptability and Context: Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects, Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Satoh, T., Jokanović, M., 2014. Toxicity and Novel Biomarkers of OP Exposure, in: Balali-Mood, M., Abdollahi, M. (Eds.), Basic and Clinical Toxicology of Organophosphorus Compounds. Springer, London, pp. 119–139.

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: X.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. NASA Shares Beautiful Image Of Volcanic Eruption Aftermath As Seen From Space [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nasa-shares-beautiful-image-of-volcanic-eruption-aftermath-as-seen-from-space/ (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. Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority: Information on Contracting at Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport Between 1992 and 1999 (No. GAO-01-185R). 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

Ramirez, E.Y., 2015. Barriers to access to health care among Latino immigrants in the United States: A quantitative study (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

McAULEY, J., 2016. Paris, Texas. New York Times M2132.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Strasser, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Doherty and Kay, 2012; Strasser, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Doherty and Kay, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kassar-Duchossoy et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biosensors and Bioelectronics: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1370
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