How to format your references using the Biotribology citation style

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

[1]

A. Boetius, Ocean science. Lost City life, Science 307 (2005) 1420–1422.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.J. Peale, M.H. Lee, A primordial origin of the Laplace relation among the Galilean satellites, Science 298 (2002) 593–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Giannini, R. Saravanan, P. Chang, Oceanic forcing of Sahel rainfall on interannual to interdecadal time scales, Science 302 (2003) 1027–1030.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.E. Black, D.R. Foltz, S. Chakravarthy, K. Luger, V.L. Woods Jr, D.W. Cleveland, Structural determinants for generating centromeric chromatin, Nature 430 (2004) 578–582.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Di Stefano, Distributed Data Management for Grid Computing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

K. Aberer, K.-S. Choi, N. Noy, D. Allemang, K.-I. Lee, L. Nixon, J. Golbeck, P. Mika, D. Maynard, R. Mizoguchi, G. Schreiber, P. Cudré-Mauroux, eds., The Semantic Web: 6th International Semantic Web Conference, 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2007 + ASWC 2007, Busan, Korea, November 11-15, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Babagholami-Mohamadabadi, S.M. Roostaiyan, A. Zarghami, M.S. Baghshah, Multi-Modal Distance Metric Learning: ABayesian Non-parametric Approach, in: L. Agapito, M.M. Bronstein, C. Rother (Eds.), Computer Vision - ECCV 2014 Workshops: Zurich, Switzerland, September 6-7 and 12, 2014, Proceedings, Part III, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 63–77.

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 Biotribology.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, There’s A Cheaper Alternative To The EpiPen - But Your Pharmacist Can Only Give It To You If You Do This, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/theres-a-cheaper-alternative-to-the-epipen-but-your-pharmacist-can-only-give-it-to-you-if-you-do-this/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Basis Used by the Office of Education for Classifying Contracts as Either Competitive or Noncompetitive, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.A. Watson, Middle school students’ experiences on a science museum field trip as Preparation for Future Learning, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Alabama Governor Fails to Prevent Jefferson County’s Record $4 Billion Bankruptcy Filing, New York Times (2011) A16.

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	Biotribology
Abbreviation	Biotribology
ISSN (print)	2352-5738
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