How to format your references using the Bioprinting citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioprinting. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

R. Koenig, IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iranian Women Hear the Call of Science, Science 290 (2000) 1485.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Boltasseva, V.M. Shalaev, Materials science. All that glitters need not be gold, Science 347 (2015) 1308–1310.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.T.M. Irvine, V. Vitelli, P.M. Chaikin, Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces, Nature 468 (2010) 947–951.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Koga, G.T. Gao, H. Tanaka, X.C. Zeng, Formation of ordered ice nanotubes inside carbon nanotubes, Nature 412 (2001) 802–805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.A. McLaughlin, Nonprofit Mergers and Alliances, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S. Mangiameli, ed., Italian Regionalism: Between Unitary Traditions and Federal Processes: Investigating Italy’s Form of State, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Érsek, Z.Á. Nagy, Species hybrids in the genus Phytophthora with emphasis on the alder pathogen Phytophthora alni: a review, in: A. Lebeda, P.T.N. Spencer-Phillips, B.M. Cooke (Eds.), The Downy Mildews - Genetics, Molecular Biology and Control, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 31–39.

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 Bioprinting.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, World’s Largest Offshore Windfarm Given Green Light To Be Built Off Britain’s Coast, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-largest-offshore-windfarm-given-green-light-to-be-built-off-britains-coast/ (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, Transportation Services: Better Dissemination and Oversight of DOT’s Guidance Could Lead to Improved Access for Limited English-Proficient Populations (Chinese Version), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Smith, Functional analysis of ESAT-6 and EspB, two virulence proteins secreted by the ESX-1 system in Mycobacterium marinum, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

K. Candaele, BackTalk; A Brother Finds Family Comfort in Turbulent Waters, New York Times (2002) 811.

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	Bioprinting
Abbreviation	Bioprinting
ISSN (print)	2405-8866
Scope	Biotechnology Computer Science Applications Biomedical Engineering