How to format your references using the Matrix Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Matrix Biology. 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]

H. Grützmacher, CHEMISTRY: New Chemical Bricks Made Through Phosphorus Tricks, Science 289 (2000) 737–738.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Thurner, S. Poledna, DebtRank-transparency: controlling systemic risk in financial networks, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1888.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.U. Huynh, J.J. Dittmer, A.P. Alivisatos, Hybrid nanorod-polymer solar cells, Science 295 (2002) 2425–2427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Mall, J. Sobotta, C. Huber, C. Tschirner, S. Kowarschik, K. Bačnik, M. Mergelsberg, M. Boll, M. Hügler, W. Eisenreich, I.A. Berg, Reversibility of citrate synthase allows autotrophic growth of a thermophilic bacterium, Science 359 (2018) 563–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.A. Laplante, S.J. Ovaska, Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C.D. Geddes, J.R. Lakowicz, eds., Who’s Who in Fluorescence 2005, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.S. Gisbertz, J. Straatman, M.A. Cuesta, General Principles of Recognition of Major Complications Following Surgery of the Digestive Tract, in: M.A. Cuesta, H.J. Bonjer (Eds.), Treatment of Postoperative Complications After Digestive Surgery, Springer, London, 2014: pp. 27–33.

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 Matrix Biology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, 25 of the Most Terrifying-Looking Sea Creatures, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-25-most-terrifying-looking-sea-creatures/ (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, President’s Third Special Message for FY 1981, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V. Kapatsinski, The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2009.

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.D. Shear, M. Landler, J. Kanter, Trump’s Message to Nato is Pay Up, Not ‘All for One,’ New York Times (2017) 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	Matrix Biology
Abbreviation	Matrix Biol.
ISSN (print)	0945-053X
Scope	Molecular Biology