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]

M. Grayson, Assessing science, Nature 520 (2015) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

F. Shi, M.A. Lemmon, Biochemistry. KSR plays CRAF-ty, Science 332 (2011) 1043–1044.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.H. Girvetz, J.A.G. Jaeger, J.H. Thorne, Comment on “Roadless space of the conterminous United States,” Science 318 (2007) 1240; author reply 1240.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.M. Hoffmeister, E.C. Josefsson, N.A. Isaac, H. Clausen, J.H. Hartwig, T.P. Stossel, Glycosylation restores survival of chilled blood platelets, Science 301 (2003) 1531–1534.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Shreves, B. Dunwoodie, Drupal® 7 Bible, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Tombran-Tink, C.J. Barnstable, J.F. Rizzo, eds., Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices: New Hope in Sight, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.A. Eremeyev, W. Pietraszkiewicz, Material Symmetry Group and Consistently Reduced Constitutive Equations of the Elastic Cosserat Continuum, in: H. Altenbach, S. Forest, A. Krivtsov (Eds.), Generalized Continua as Models for Materials: With Multi-Scale Effects or Under Multi-Field Actions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 77–90.

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]

A. Carpineti, A New Quantum Teleportation Record Has Been Broken, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-new-quantum-teleportation-record-has-been-broken/ (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, Information Technology: Architecture Needed to Guide NASA’s Financial Management Modernization, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.M. O’Byrne, Metabolic and pathological role of retinyl esters: The role of lecithin:retinol acyl transferase, (LRAT), Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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.M. Grynbaum, K. Kelly, Ousted Federal Prosecutor, a Trump Critic, Will Join CNN as an Analyst, New York Times (2017) B4.

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
Scope