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

Conard, N.J. Palaeolithic Ivory Sculptures from Southwestern Germany and the Origins of Figurative Art. Nature 2003, 426, 830–832.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abanin, D.A.; Levitov, L.S. Quantized Transport in Graphene P-n Junctions in a Magnetic Field. Science 2007, 317, 641–643.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rabitz, H.A.; Hsieh, M.M.; Rosenthal, C.M. Quantum Optimally Controlled Transition Landscapes. Science 2004, 303, 1998–2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nikolov, N.; Sing, D.K.; Fortney, J.J.; Goyal, J.M.; Drummond, B.; Evans, T.M.; Gibson, N.P.; De Mooij, E.J.W.; Rustamkulov, Z.; Wakeford, H.R.; et al. An Absolute Sodium Abundance for a Cloud-Free “hot Saturn” Exoplanet. Nature 2018, 557, 526–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Exposito, E. Advanced Transport Protocols; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2012; ISBN 9781118580202.

An edited book

Logic, Rationality, and Interaction: 5th International Workshop, LORI 2015, Taipei, Taiwan, October 28-30, 2015. Proceedings; van der Hoek, W., Holliday, W.H., Wang, W.-F., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015; Vol. 9394; ISBN 9783662485606.

A chapter in an edited book

Kotkasaari, T. Transboundary Cooperation Between Finland and Its Neighbouring Countries. In Management of Transboundary Rivers and Lakes; Varis, O., Biswas, A.K., Tortajada, C., Eds.; Water Resources Development and Management; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; pp. 123–141 ISBN 9783540749264.

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. Australian Biosecurity Officials Incinerate Rare Botanical Collection Due To “Paperwork Mix-Up” (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 [Comments on Panama Canal Revolving Fund Act]; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glassett Farrelly, S. Understanding Alternative Education: A Mixed Methods Examination of Student Experiences. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2013.

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. A Raid on Men’s Closets. New York Times 2010, E6.

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