How to format your references using the Biosensors citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biosensors. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Benderly, B.L. Not Your Father’s Postdoc. Science 2005, 308, 717–718.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tulin, A.; Spradling, A. Chromatin Loosening by Poly(ADP)-Ribose Polymerase (PARP) at Drosophila Puff Loci. Science 2003, 299, 560–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh, P.K.; Hopwood, J.; Sonkusale, S. Metamaterials for Remote Generation of Spatially Controllable Two Dimensional Array of Microplasma. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5964.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, P.; Burke, S.; Wang, J.; Chen, X.; Ortiz, M.; Lee, S.-C.; Lu, D.; Campos, L.; Goulding, D.; Ng, B.L.; et al. Reprogramming of T Cells to Natural Killer-like Cells upon Bcl11b Deletion. Science 2010, 329, 85–89.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaud, T. Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2017; ISBN 9781119427568.

An edited book

Intelligent Paradigms for Assistive and Preventive Healthcare; Ichalkaranje, N., Ichalkaranje, A., Jain, L.C., Eds.; Studies in Computational Intelligence; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 19; ISBN 9783540317623.

A chapter in an edited book

Peikert, C. Some Recent Progress in Lattice-Based Cryptography. In Theory of Cryptography: 6th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2009. Proceedings; Reingold, O., Ed.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 72–72 ISBN 9783642004568.

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.

Blog post

Davis, J. Plant Fungi Impact How Monarch Butterflies Fight Disease Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fungi-root-plant-impact-how-monarch-butterflies-fight-disease/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Spanish Version); U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2005;

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Hobbs, E. Rehearing Florence Price: A Closer Look at Her Symphony in E Minor. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Hodgman, J. Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times 2016, MM26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Biosensors
Abbreviation	Biosensors (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-6374
Scope	Clinical Biochemistry General Medicine