How to format your references using the Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research. 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. Cuk, Excitation of lunar eccentricity by planetary resonances, Science 318 (2007) 244.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O.R.P. Bininda-Emonds, A. Purvis, Comment on “Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg extinction on mammal diversification,” Science 337 (2012) 34; author reply 34.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Kuhlenkoetter, W. Wintermeyer, M.V. Rodnina, Different substrate-dependent transition states in the active site of the ribosome, Nature 476 (2011) 351–354.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.J. Florusse, C.J. Peters, J. Schoonman, K.C. Hester, C.A. Koh, S.F. Dec, K.N. Marsh, E.D. Sloan, Stable low-pressure hydrogen clusters stored in a binary clathrate hydrate, Science 306 (2004) 469–471.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Colloms, P. Darlington, High Performance Loudspeakers, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, England, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

P. D’Odorico, A. Porporato, eds., Dryland Ecohydrology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O.M. Mereuta, C.P. Larsen, A. Dogan, Leukocyte Cell-Derived Chemotaxin 2 Amyloidosis (ALECT2), in: M.M. Picken, G.A. Herrera, A. Dogan (Eds.), Amyloid and Related Disorders: Surgical Pathology and Clinical Correlations, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 55–63.

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 Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Marriage of Ancient and Modern Makes Rosetta Mission a True Space Odyssey, IFLScience (2014).

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, Disadvantaged Students: School Districts Have Used Title I Funds Primarily to Support Instruction, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Glover, Reconciling the doctrine of original sin with principles of moral responsibility, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

J. Wagner, Twins Deal Sends Colon To Minors, New York Times (2017) D3.

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	Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research
Abbreviation	Sens. BioSensing Res.
ISSN (print)	2214-1804
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