How to format your references using the Biosensors and Bioelectronics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 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 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

Vogel, C., 2013. Evolution. Protein expression under pressure. Science 342, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nilsson, J., Payne, D.N., 2011. Physics. High-power fiber lasers. Science 332, 921–922.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maini, P.K., Baker, R.E., Chuong, C.-M., 2006. Developmental biology. The Turing model comes of molecular age. Science 314, 1397–1398.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Uchiyama, Y., Aharonian, F.A., Tanaka, T., Takahashi, T., Maeda, Y., 2007. Extremely fast acceleration of cosmic rays in a supernova remnant. Nature 449, 576–578.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eichhorn, M.P., 2016. Natural Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zhang, W. (Ed.), 2013. Advanced Technology in Teaching: Selected papers from the 2012 International Conference on Teaching and Computational Science (ICTCS 2012), Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tippet, R., 2016. Corporate Geocorpographies: Surveillance and Social Media Expansion, in: Randell-Moon, H., Tippet, R. (Eds.), Security, Race, Biopower: Essays on Technology and Corporeality. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, pp. 81–100.

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 Biosensors and Bioelectronics.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Existing Drug Rejuvenates Brains Of Elderly Rats [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/approved-asthma-drug-rejuvenates-brains-elderly-rats/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 2004. Aviation Security: Further Steps Needed to Strengthen the Security of Commercial Airport Perimeters and Access Controls (No. GAO-04-728). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flores, M.Y., 2010. Delinquency prevention program for Latino youth: A grant proposal project (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Wilson, M., 2017. From Fortunetelling to a Forgery Accusation, the Tale of a Psychic’s Arrest. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Vogel, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Nilsson and Payne, 2011; Vogel, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nilsson and Payne, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Uchiyama et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Biosensors and Bioelectronics
Abbreviation	Biosens. Bioelectron.
ISSN (print)	0956-5663
Scope	Biophysics Biotechnology Electrochemistry Biomedical Engineering General Medicine