How to format your references using the Biosurface and Biotribology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biosurface and Biotribology. 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

[1]

M. Huch, Regenerative biology: The versatile and plastic liver, Nature 517 (2015) 155–156.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Zubavicus, M. Grunze, Chemistry. New insights into the structure of water with ultrafast probes, Science 304 (2004) 974–976.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F. Delsuc, M.J. Phillips, D. Penny, Comment on “Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?,” Science 301 (2003) 1482; author reply 1482.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Coumailleau, M. Fürthauer, J.A. Knoblich, M. González-Gaitán, Directional Delta and Notch trafficking in Sara endosomes during asymmetric cell division, Nature 458 (2009) 1051–1055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Bittner, Temporality: Universals and Variation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

C.-M. Lam, J. Park, eds., Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Sunderland, E. Kendall, C.A. Marshall, L. Barlow, I’ll Paint you a Picture and You’ll Hear my Story: Broadening the Scope of Narrative Research for Arts-Based Service Learning, in: B.-L. Bartleet, D. Bennett, A. Power, N. Sunderland (Eds.), Engaging First Peoples in Arts-Based Service Learning: Towards Respectful and Mutually Beneficial Educational Practices, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 71–81.

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 Biosurface and Biotribology.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Common Painkiller Could Make You Less Able To Feel Empathy, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Earth Observing System: Funding Requirements for NASA’s EOSDIS, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Dillon, Active aging program for older adults with early stage dementia, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

[1]

A. Soloski, The Ethics of Telling Someone Else’s Story, New York Times (2015) C3.

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	Biosurface and Biotribology
Abbreviation	Biosurf. Biotribol.
ISSN (print)	2405-4518
Scope