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

Lakes, R., 2000. MATERIALS SCIENCE: Deformations in Extreme Matter. Science 288, 1976–1977.

A journal article with 2 authors

Danku, Z., Kun, F., 2013. Creep rupture as a non-homogeneous Poissonian process. Sci. Rep. 3, 2688.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neil, S.J.D., Zang, T., Bieniasz, P.D., 2008. Tetherin inhibits retrovirus release and is antagonized by HIV-1 Vpu. Nature 451, 425–430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Abo-Shaeer, J.R., Raman, C., Vogels, J.M., Ketterle, W., 2001. Observation of vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates. Science 292, 476–479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Deventer, D.R., Imai, K., Mesler, M., 2013. Advanced Financial Risk Management, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Solaris South Tower, Singapore.

An edited book

Stavrakakis, I., Smirnov, M. (Eds.), 2006. Autonomic Communication: Second International IFIP Workshop, WAC 2005, Athens, Greece, October 2-5, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Saito, S., Nakajiama, M., Shima, T., 2012. Optimal Differential Filter on Hexagonal Lattice, in: Ogiela, M.R., Jain, L.C. (Eds.), Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Advanced Pattern Classification, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 59–87.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Abuse Of Carbon Credit Scheme Might Have Increased Carbon Emissions By 600 Million Tonnes [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/abuse-carbon-credit-scheme-might-have-increased-carbon-emissions-600-million-tonnes/ (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, 2011. Space Research: Content and Coordination of Space Science and Technology Strategy Need to Be More Robust (No. GAO-11-722). 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

Torres-Partida, A., 2014. Bridging the gap between faith based leaders and mental health professionals (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

Kenigsberg, B., 2016. Razor Images. Bewildered Eyes. New York Times AR14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lakes, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Danku and Kun, 2013; Lakes, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Danku and Kun, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Abo-Shaeer et al., 2001)

About the journal

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