How to format your references using the Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition. 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]

Tabashnik BE. Plant science. Communal benefits of transgenic corn. Science. 2010;330:189–190.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nienborg H, Cumming BG. Decision-related activity in sensory neurons reflects more than a neuron’s causal effect. Nature. 2009;459:89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hill EW, Jobling MA, Bradley DG. Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins. Nature. 2000;404:351–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Elbaum R, Zaltzman L, Burgert I, et al. The role of wheat awns in the seed dispersal unit. Science. 2007;316:884–886.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goldberger AL, Goldberger ZD. Becoming a Consummate Clinician. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Land R, Bayne S, editors. Digital Difference: Perspectives on Online Learning. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Molina C, Tubella J, González A. Reducing Misspeculation Penalty in Trace-Level Speculative Multithreaded Architectures. In: Labarta J, Joe K, Sato T, editors. High-Performance Computing: 6th International Symposium, ISHPC 2005, Nara, Japan, September 7-9, 2005, First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems, ALPS 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 43–55.

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 Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Drinking Coffee Could Help Protect Your DNA From Damage [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/drinking-coffee-could-help-protect-our-dna-damage/.

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. Healthcare.gov: Information Security and Privacy Controls Should Be Enhanced to Address Weaknesses. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014. Report No.: GAO-14-871T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Decena M. What variables affect Peritoneal Dialysis growth? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Mazzetti M. New Law Shifts Fight on Claims for 9/11 Victims. New York Times. 2016 Sep 30;A1.

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	Journal of Biomaterials Science, Polymer Edition
Abbreviation	J. Biomater. Sci. Polym. Ed.
ISSN (print)	0920-5063
ISSN (online)	1568-5624
Scope	Biophysics Bioengineering Biomedical Engineering Biomaterials